rTorrent is a very cool torrent client used in *nix based systems. I have been using it on my Apple TV now for a few weeks with very good results.
Recently the weather here in St. Louis has been stormy and it knocked out my electricity. When the power came back on, I couldn’t get rTorrent started and I was getting this error:
rtorrent: Could not lock session directory: “/Users/frontrow/.rtorrent_session/”, held by “appletv:+189”.
The fix was pretty easy, I went into the .rtorrent_session directory and removed the rtorrent.lock file.
cd ~/.rtorrent_session/
rm -f rtorrent.lock
That was all there was to it, once I removed the lock file I was able to start rTorrent.
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Thanks, worked perfectly.
Thanks :)
Tnx mate, saved me couple of mins on research :)
Worked like a charm. THANK YOU!!
Thanks, works great!
Thank you!!
thx !
thaks, m8
Thanks! Had some power outages too.
I read a bunch of complicated solutions before getting to this one. First to actually work, and it did so perfectly!