My Splunk instance crashed and it won't restart with this error in splunkd.log :
01-30-2013 18:29:05.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:29:15.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:29:25.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:29:35.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:29:45.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:29:55.094 +0000 WARN loader - Sleep 10 sec, waiting for config lock.
01-30-2013 18:30:05.094 +0000 FATAL loader - Timed out waiting for config lock; see splunkd_stderr.log for details. Exiting.
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