On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > It's not the creation that's the problem, is the locking. > File locking over NFS has always been a problem... AFAIK fcntl locking has never worked in linux, though AFAIK it is supposed to be supported. Maybe mention this to the kernel developers. The error code changed too, it used to give something reasonable that APT just ignores, but now it gives this screwy error :< Jason