Comment 12 for bug 148087

It turns out that it *is* fixed, sort of.

I'm guessing that you are doing 'bzr push', seeing the lock message and then hitting Ctrl-C, because that's the only way I could reproduce this big. When you do that, Bazaar leaves the SSH process lying around still connected to Launchpad (see bug 141172 and bug 172392).

This means that running 'bzr break-lock' actually does break the lock. Unfortunately, the ssh process immediately re-acquires the lock, so when you try to push again, it looks as if break-lock didn't work.

This behaviour is undesirable and work to fix it is being tracked in the bugs I mentioned earlier. I'll have a chat to the Bazaar guys to see if we can get it fixed soon.