id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
2285	multi backup error	dawuud	daira	"
When performing two backups at once (tahoe backup) one of them crashed
with a stack traceback ending in this error:
OperationalError: database is locked

I was running tahoe-lafs in Tails from wheezy-backports :

$ tahoe --version
allmydata-tahoe: 1.10.0
foolscap: 0.6.4
pycryptopp: 0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958
zfec: 1.4.5
Twisted: 12.0.0
Nevow: 0.10.0
zope.interface: unknown
python: 2.7.3
platform: Linux-debian_7.6-x86_64-32bit_ELF
pyOpenSSL: 0.13
simplejson: 2.5.2
pycrypto: 2.6
pyasn1: unknown
mock: 0.8.0
setuptools: 0.6 [distribute]



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/runner.py"", line 156, in run
    rc = runner(sys.argv[1:], install_node_control=install_node_control)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/runner.py"", line 141, in runner
    rc = cli.dispatch[command](so)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/cli.py"", line 574, in backup
    rc = tahoe_backup.backup(options)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 325, in backup
    return bu.run()
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 118, in run
    new_backup_dircap = self.process(options.from_dir)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 188, in process
    childcap = self.process(childpath)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 188, in process
    childcap = self.process(childpath)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 188, in process
    childcap = self.process(childpath)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 194, in process
    childcap, metadata = self.upload(childpath)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/tahoe_backup.py"", line 313, in upload
    bdb_results.did_upload(filecap)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/backupdb.py"", line 122, in did_upload
    self.mtime, self.ctime, self.size)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/backupdb.py"", line 264, in did_upload_file
    fileid = self.get_or_allocate_fileid_for_cap(filecap)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/allmydata/scripts/backupdb.py"", line 256, in get_or_allocate_fileid_for_cap
    c.execute(""SELECT fileid FROM caps WHERE filecap=?"", (filecap,))
OperationalError: database is locked

"	defect	new	normal	undecided	unknown	1.10.0