Re: [Evolution] fcntl, NFS, and Evo 0.8

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On 12 Jan 2001 13:34:01 -0700, David Sims wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2001 08:53:11 +0200, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:38:13 David Sims wrote:
> > | Hi, I'm running Evo 0.8 on a Debian 2.2 (potato) box. Evo 0.8 is
> > | installed via Helix Update.
> > | 
> > | My home directory is NFS-mounted and I'm getting the dreaded fcntl
> > | error. This prevents me from using Evo 0.8. The NFS client is this
> > | Debian 2.2 box. The NFS server is Red Hat 6.1.
> >
> > Upgrade RH6.1's NFS server (just download 6.2's), or mount the NFS
> > drive with the mount option '-nolock'.  NOTE: -nolock does exactly
> > what it says.
>
> Fixed!
>
> For the record, this is what I had to do. On the Debian 2.2 client
> machine, I mounted my home directory using the "-nolock" option. But
> that alone didn't fix it. Still got fcntl errors. I later found out I
> also had to turn on "nfslock" on the Red Hat 6.1 server machine like so:
>
> chkconfig nfs on
> chkconfig nfslock on
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock start
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start
>
> Bottom line: I had to turn on nfslock on the Red Hat 6.1 server machine.
> I didn't have to install any new RH 6.2 RPMs, thankfully.
>
> Thanks Berend for your help! (now I don't even mind the way Evo 0.8
> duplicates every incoming message to twice the message's original size
> and content :-)

For future reference, the fcntl and flock file locks can be disabled at
compile if necessary.

-JP

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