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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Not a solution and I'm not terribly happy with it, but I've been able to work
> around this problem by adding nolock to /home's line in fstab. (I also NFS
> mount /var/cache/apt and had to add a nolock to that as well.)
>
Yeah, I've taken to doing the same thing. I've decided that this is most
definitely a bug, because the manpage for fcntl says the following:
ENOLCK Too many segment locks open, lock table is full,
or a remote locking protocol failed (e.g. locking
over NFS).
This is what errno should be set to if you try to lock a file on an NFS
mounted filesystem. But on my potato system, it's being set to EACCES. I
suspect a libc bug, because I've used the same kernel version successfully
on a slink system. I've emailed the libc maintainer about it, but I
haven't heard anything.
noah
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