On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Rob McMahon wrote: > On 20/01/2011 11:31, Rob McMahon wrote: >> >> >> >> I've restored my b8 copy, and tried it anyway, having taken a backup of >> everything this time. Starting with no profile (I deleted >> ~/.mozilla/firefox), I get >> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of >> Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security software >> can cause this problem." >> ... >> >> Is there anything else I can do to help track this problem down ? I'd like >> to help fix this problem. Note that this machine is running Oracle Solaris >> 11 Express snv_151a X86, the same upgrade works fine on my laptop running >> OpenIndiana 148 at home. There are, no doubt, other differences between the >> two machines (like this machine has nVidia graphics, my laptop has ATI). >> Any thoughts ? Am I the only one having issues ? > Update. Looking through bugzilla, there are a number of comments about > network file systems. One difference between these two machines is that the > working one is using local (ZFS) storage, and the broken one is using NFSv4 > storage from a Solaris 10 box. The local storage there is UFS. An > interesting comment from the SQLite site: > > "SQLite uses POSIX advisory locks to implement locking on Unix... One should > note that POSIX advisory locking is known to be buggy or even unimplemented > on many NFS implementations (including recent versions of Mac OS X) and that > there are reports of locking problems for network filesystems under Windows. > Your best defense is to not use SQLite for files on a network filesystem. " > > I think locking should be okay between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris 10, > over NFSv4, though. And what has changed between b8 and b9 ? > b9 uses Sqlite 3.7.3 b8 uses Sqlite 3.7.1
I don't know if it is the problem. Ginn > Rob > -- > E-Mail: rob.mcma...@warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 > Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England
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