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Subject: Re: Stale lockfile
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> Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for?
> Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'.
that you use portupgrade -a before and it was stopped by some way and did 
not removed it's lock file.

Now it found a lock file, but no longer process that it referenced too, so 
it gave a message and deleted it