On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tim Janik wrote: > urm, strange. i am able to touch that file, and as you can see from > the strace, it's not the open() that's failing, but the fcntl(), so fnctl's man page mentions that EACCESS can also mean the lock is held by some other process. Check your lan to see if someone else is using APT at the same time you are. The NFS server may have got lost and is incorrectly holding onto that lock too. Jason