[TAG] NFS file locking?

[Lew Pitcher]

On October 20, 2005 16:04, Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into a weird problem today. For some time now gimp complains about
> "permission denied" when it tries to lock files and today openoffice 2.0
> refused to write its config and documents. soffice seems to open the
> file for read to check if it exists already, closes the handle and
> reopens with a lock flag set -- which fails with "permission denied".
> Don't have the exact strace here right now, but can send it tomorrow. 
[snip]
> Any ideas? 

Sure.

Check to see if rpc.lockd and rpc.statd are running on your local system. If 
they aren't running, start them, and try your OOo NFS edit again.

I opened an incident with OpenOffice on this problem back with one of the OOo2 
betas (OOo 1.9.95, iirc), and the answer came back that it was likely a 
misconfigured NFS client setup.

I looked around, and found some instructions, and lo and behold, my distro had 
stopped setting up the client side properly one or two upgrades ago. Next 
release, they correct it, but for now I have 

  if [ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd ]; then
    /usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
  fi
  
  if [ -x /usr/sbin/rpc.statd ]; then
    /usr/sbin/rpc.statd
  fi

buried in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local

That seems to have fixed the problem; no more "General I/O error"s when OOo2 
tries to lock an NFS-distributed file.

HTH
-- 
Lew Pitcher

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