Re: [Evolution] File locking...

[JP Rosevear <jpr helixcode com>]

On 08 Jan 2001 10:38:31 -0500, John Affleck wrote:
> First off, serious congrats to the Evolution team.  I've been using
> Evolution full time at work now for a couple of months and it does
> (almost) everything perfectly.  I've finally found a decent mail
> client.  (I know, Evolution is much more...)
>
> However, I have the unfortunate circumstance of having my mail
> directory on an "NFS" (I use the term loosely) server that I can't
> control.  Recently, I've been having problems with NFS locking on it
> (lockd complains about it).  This in turn means that evolution pops up
> messages about:
>
> Error while 'Synchronizing "/mbox"':
> Failed to get lock using fcntl(2): No locks available
>
> Which is all well and good - it's doing the right thing because my box
> is misbehaving.  However, when I send mail, I get the same error:
>
> Error wile 'Sending "A test"':
> Failed to get lock using fcntl(2): No locks available
>
> And every indication is that the mail wasn't sent.  The composer
> window pops up and I can send it again.  But the mail does get sent.
>
> If I send it again, evolution-mail usually crashes, but that's pretty
> irrelevant.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions about the file lock problem ?  (Other
> than kicking the NFS box).  Is there a way to persuade Evolution to
> fall back to some other type of locking (I'm guessing this is a bad
> idea.)

There are configure options to turn off fcntl locking. Alternately you
can can set the file locking to flock and see how that goes.

-JP

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