<quote who="Christopher Vance"> > dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status database: No locks available > W: Not using locking for nfs mounted lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
> It looks to me like some of these are warnings, and perhaps innocuous, > since packages seem to get installed, but there are errors too, with > packages not being configured. > > Any suggestions how I can make dpkg do (all of) its thing over nfs? Are you running lockd/portmap? Looks like "no", and I'd imagine that would make for some scary b0rkage. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "World domination is a community responsibility." - Michael Hall, LinuxPlanet -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
