rustrust-cargo

Cargo build hangs with " Blocking waiting for file lock on the registry index" after building parity from source

I followed the readme instructions for building Parity from source and then executed:

cargo build --release
~/.cargo/bin/cargo build --release

as instructed, both of which returned the following message while the prompt hung:

 Blocking waiting for file lock on the registry index

I'm on a Mac.

Solution

  • I suggest looking at 'Cargo build hangs with " Blocking waiting for file lock on the registry index" after building parity from source' first.

    I had the same issue and had success with a quick and dirty

    rm -rf ~/.cargo/registry/index/* ~/.cargo/.package-cache