SVN frequently says file is locked by me in another working copy

Question

I have an SVN repository (hosted on Dreamhost) with needs-lock set on binary files. It sometimes happen that, while committing files locked and modified by me, the commit fails

Answer 1

I also encountered the same problem and found that out of three machines, in one of the machine I have locked the file and due to which I also facing the problem. What I did is release the lock from that machine and proceed further.

OR

Steal the lock first and then start working as this is the best option provided by SVN.