"bzr status" fails due to lock by "bzr commit"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:08:50 -0600
> From: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
> CC: robertc at robertcollins.net, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> >> If you want to give it a try, this patch should do:
> >> === modified file 'bzrlib/msgeditor.py'
> >> - --- bzrlib/msgeditor.py 2009-03-23 14:59:43 +0000
> >> +++ bzrlib/msgeditor.py 2010-01-05 04:24:02 +0000
> > 
> > Thanks, but unfortunately I can't, at least not without some help: I
> > installed Bazaar with a stand-alone Windows installer, which is
> > probably the reason why I don't see msgeditor.py anywhere on my disk.
> > 
> > I could probably download Bazaar sources and patch msgeditor.py there,
> > but is there a way to tell bzr to use that msgeditor.py instead of
> > whatever binary form of it lives on my machine?
> > (library.zip:msgeditor.pyo, is that right?)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> I think if you opened library.zip in a zip utility, and then deleted
> msgeditor.pyo and added msgeditor.py it would use the patched form.

Sorry for a long delay, I only have weekends to work on this.

I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work, unfortunately: the
bzr_log.* files are still created in the directory where I run
"bzr ci".  Which is strange, since the documentation of
tempfile.mkstemp seems to say that omitting dir= should have caused
mkstemp to use one of the temporary directories.  I do have TEMP, TMP,
and TMPDIR set in the environment.

What's even more strange, commenting out that line causes bzr to pop
and empty buffer in Emacs, i.e. the part that says

  -------------- This line and the following will be ignored --------------

  modified:
    src/emacs.c

is not there.

What am I doing wrong?  Replacing msgeditor.pyo in library.zip does
work: if I restore the commented out line and update library.zip with
msgeditor.py that is identical to the original one, the buffer popped
in Emacs again has the above text that shows files to be committed.
What else could I have screwed up?

TIA