Re: Problem sharing apt cache through NFS

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:41:12 +0300
Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm, now that I actually tried this myself:
> - first I didn't have nfslock running at all and it worked just fine,
> only giving a warning "W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lock" at the end of operation.
> - once nfslock got started on both .. well, it "just worked"
> - if the directory is actually locked then you should get "resource
> temporarily unavailable" instead of "permission denied"
> 
> I'd guess this is just one of those nfs quirks.. a "stale lock" or
> something like that :-/ How to clear the situation .. well, dunno
> really. Maybe recycle the rpc.statd processes on all hosts or something?

Thks for spending some time on this. I restarted nfs.statd on both
client and server, but it didn't help -- problem persists. Either
there's some subtle problem going on or there's some basic configuration
missing somewhere...

Anyway, this is totally unrelated to apt-get AFAICS. Now if I just could
separate lockfile from archive dir, maybe it would work...

Best,

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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