It works on local. So lock issue is NFS related, though not a writing issue as some db files are created as well as logs. Could be clock related?
Console extract from local and nfs below (on same server) On local: osallou@genokvm2:/tmp/neo4j-community-1.5/data$ rm -rf graph.db osallou@genokvm2:/tmp/neo4j-community-1.5/data$ cd .. osallou@genokvm2:/tmp/neo4j-community-1.5$ bin/neo4j stop ERROR: Neo4j Server not running osallou@genokvm2:/tmp/neo4j-community-1.5$ bin/neo4j start Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user process [1267]... waiting for server to be ready.... OK. on NFS dir: osallou@genokvm2:~/neo/neo4j-community-1.5/data$ rm -rf graph.db/ osallou@genokvm2:~/neo/neo4j-community-1.5/data$ cd .. osallou@genokvm2:~/neo/neo4j-community-1.5$ bin/neo4j stop ERROR: Neo4j Server not running osallou@genokvm2:~/neo/neo4j-community-1.5$ bin/neo4j start Starting Neo4j Server...WARNING: not changing user process [1591]... waiting for server to be ready.. BAD. Neo4j Server may have failed to start, please check the logs. 2012/1/6 Jim Webber <j...@neotechnology.com> > Hi Olivier, > > Can you rule out NFS issues by copying the cleanly shutdown database to a > local volume and start it from there? > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > NOTICE: THIS MAILING LIST IS BEING SWITCHED TO GOOGLE GROUPS, please > register and consider posting at > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/neo4j > > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (pgp.mit.edu) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 _______________________________________________ NOTICE: THIS MAILING LIST IS BEING SWITCHED TO GOOGLE GROUPS, please register and consider posting at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/neo4j Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user