If cadence is not properly exited, it results in edit locks on cadence files that were open at the time of exiting. The lock files have extension ‘.cdslck’. After restarting cadence, we have to remove edit locks to continue further work on those files.
We have two options to remove edit locks.
- First find the lock files.
find . -name "*.cdslck"
Then delete the lock files to release edit locks
rm /path/to/lock/file
You can release all lock files in one shot,
find . -name "*.cdslck" -exec rm -f {}Be cautious when using this command.
- use clsAdminTool
clsAdminTool
To remove file or folder locks in cadence enviroment, try using the ‘clsAdminTool’
This tool can be invoked by typing ‘clsAdminTool’ in the command terminal. A promt > will appear if invoked correctly.
[sam@sun ~] clsAdminTool |
Type ‘help’ at the prompt to get list of options available.
> help Commands: system - execute shell command ale - List all Edit Locks in directoryHierarchy aple [pid [processCreationTime]] - List all Edit Locks of process pid in directoryHierarchy are - Release all Edit Locks in directoryHierarchy apre - Release all Edit Locks of process pid in directoryHierarchy asre - Release Edit Lock on the file specified by filePath force - Set force mode to remove old style locks with simple host names exit - exit with last status help - This output quit - quit (with good status (0)) > |
To list all edit locks on files below current directory, type
> ale . |
To remove all edit locks on files below current directory, type
> are . |
To list edit locks on all files in a library or a specific directory, type
> ale /path/to/your/library/directory |
To release edit locks on all files in a library or a specific directory, type
> are /path/to/your/library/directory |
To remove edit lock on a specific file, type
> asre /path/to/the/locked/file |
We can also use clsAdminTool directly from command terminal. To list all the edit locks type
[sam@sun ~]$ clsAdminTool -ale . |