- While an existing file is open, save its lock file, - Edit it with a text editor manually by replacing the user name in the first field with a different one (it's in ",Computer/User," form), eg. add a character to it, - Place it next to the original file when the file is not open, - Try saving an empty document over the file. => There is an error (see screenshot). Similar to bug 108210, which was about opening such files, it should be possible to save over files that are protected by lock files, but there is no corresponding file system lock (if otherwise there's supposed to be). For example this could happen if the locking LO instance crashed. Observed using LO 6.1 daily build (2018-02-14_23:48:44, 09fcdbd5e0ae35fb7db8c8784329035edd82573b).
Created attachment 139922 [details] Error message
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/50371
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a30f8c4daaab5bfc850c18b2b0bce3fdb2281a1f tdf#115742: allow ignoring stale lockfile on save It will be available in 6.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
A polite ping to Mike Kaganski: is this bug fixed? if so, could you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Thanks