Re: file lock on /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tim Janik wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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.
nfs server had been restarted a couple of times. aparently it was lockd
freakin out some ;)
sorry for the hassle and thanks for the hints again.
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> Jason
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ciaoTJ
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