On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Jon K. Hellan wrote: > This works on kernel 2.0.36, but on 2.2.0pre1 and 2.2.0pre4 I see > this: > > fratercula# apt-get install blt8.0 > Updating package status cache...done > Checking system integrity...ok > The following NEW packages will be installed: > blt8.0 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 145 not upgraded. > Need to get 0b/494k of archives. After unpacking 1150k will be used. > E: Could not get lock ../lock - open (37 No locks available) > E: Couldn't lock the Output dir, /var/cache/apt/archives/ another process is > using it > > Apparently, NFS locking does not work. Probably a kernel bug, but I > report it to you anyway.
Yes, someone reported this, I think you should ask the kernel people.. I've heard you might need another rpc process running on the server to make locking work over NFS - let me know what you find. Jason
