On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tim Janik wrote: > > > 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 > > 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. > > Jason > --- ciaoTJ

