Re: Error: Can't lock file

[Paul DuBois]

At 23:09 -0500 12/8/02, Geetika Tewari wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am getting the following error while trying to do read-write queries on
>MySQL.  Does anyone know what this error means?
>The name of the script that generated this error is called
>randomreadwrite.pl.
>
>Can't lock file (errno: 12) at ./randomreadwrite.pl line 54.
>
>Thanks very much.


Without knowing more about the script, it's difficult to say.
Does line 54 perform some MySQL operation, or is it doing some
filesystem operation for itself, for example.  It may not be a
MySQL-related error at all.