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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 January 2011 23:49:18 Graham Binns wrote:
>   File
> "/home/graham/launchpad/lp-branches/revert-revert-revert/lib/canonical/lau
> nchpad/daemons/tachandler.py", line 143, in setUp
>     "Could not kill stale process %s." % (self.pidfile,))
> TacException: Could not kill stale process
> /var/tmp/fatsam.test/librarian.pid.
> 
> This happens in multiple branches. I've killed the librarian and
> removed the pidfile, but the problem recurs with each test run.
> 
> I know we've seen this before... anyone remember how we made it go away?

ps -fe|grep twisted
  => kill the running librarian
rm -rf /var/tmp/fatsam.test

Profit.