translate.lizard: cron.sh fail with 'Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction'

Originally created by @hefee on #16995 (Redmine)

We see it quite frequently that our cron.sh fail with ‘Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction’

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 101, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 226, in execute
    self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
    raise errorvalue
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 217, in execute
    res = self._query(query)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 378, in _query
    rowcount = self._do_query(q)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 341, in _do_query
    db.query(q)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 280, in query
    _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1205, 'Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction')

Parent Task: #15086 (closed)

Related issues

• Related to sysadmin#16994 (closed)
• Related to #17063 (closed)