Hey Sine, here is the error message i get when i try to edit a post. I try to edit, but get timed out when i hit the button to repost after i made my edits. The result deletes the post and prevents me from posting for 5 min or so.

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>ERROR: 20-second timeout while waiting for lock on 20050103.loc to disappear! (Lock files become stale after 5 minutes.)

# Package Filename Line Subroutine
1 main dataio.pm 122 main::lock_datefile
2 main dataio.pm 820 main::new_datefiles
3 main post.cgi 101

Please report the above information with a description of the problem to the programmer if you are an admin and believe this to be a bug. If you are not an admin, your e-mail will probably fall on deaf ears.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Only submit the following information if requested by the programmer:

ENV Variable Value
CONTENT_LENGTH 608
CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/tows.cc/public_html
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_COOKIE
HTTP_HOST www.tows.cc
HTTP_REFERER <a href="http://www.tows.cc/cgi-bin/rpgboard/pos ... ns.html</a>
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
PATH_INFO /ruminations.html
PATH_TRANSLATED /home/tows.cc/public_html/ruminations.html
QUERY_STRING
REMOTE_ADDR 68.100.60.85
REMOTE_HOST ip68-100-60-85.dc.dc.cox.net
REMOTE_PORT 10087
REQUEST_METHOD POST
REQUEST_URI /cgi-bin/rpgboard/post.cgi/ruminations.html
SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/tows.cc/public_html/cgi-bin/rpgboard/post.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME /cgi-bin/rpgboard/post.cgi
SERVER_ADDR 66.150.197.145
SERVER_ADMIN SineSwiper@tOWS.cc
SERVER_NAME www.tows.cc
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)
UNIQUE_ID Bip-vH8AAAEAAG@CDQ0AAAAE
File Stats
Current Process uid: 504, gid: 1000 1000, version: 2.26 beta (Perl 5.008), osname: linux, error: No such file or directory
/bin mode: 755, uid: 0, gid: 0, size: 2048
/home/tows.cc/public_html mode: 750, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 2048
/home/tows.cc/public_html/cgi-bin/rpgboard/post.cgi mode: 750, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 30990
/home/tows.cc/www mode: 750, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 2048
/usr/bin mode: 755, uid: 0, gid: 0, size: 13312
/usr/local/bin mode: 755, uid: 0, gid: 0, size: 13312
profiles mode: 750, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 2048
profiles/!!default.txt mode: 640, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 404
saves mode: 750, uid: 504, gid: 1000, size: 1024</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It happens on once in a blue moon, and I really don't know why.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It happens to me every single time I try to edit a post, that's why I always just delete now</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>BTW, if it happens, you can undelete the "editing" post. One of the things you're allowed to undelete.</div>