Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18

[Dave Oxley <dave@daveoxley.co.uk>]

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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley <dave@daveoxley.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine
>> when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share
>> and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any
>> ideas how to stop this happening?
>> [...]
>>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 159, in
>> unlockfile locking_method(myfd,fcntl.LOCK_UN)
>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>> Error in sys.exitfunc:
> 
> Look at /etc/make.conf.example:
> 
> First try cleaning the locks using
> /usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks
> If that doesn't work, you have more options:
> - specify a PORTAGE_TMPFS (albeit I'm not sure if this applies for
>   distfiles locks, too),
> - remove "distlocks" FEATURE.
> 
> -hwh

Cleaning the locks had no effect. Neither did setting PORTAGE_TMPFS. I
had to remove distlocks which also disabled parallel-fetching. I don't
understand why this only happens with 2.6.18 and it seems like a bug,
but at least I can continue to use my samba share distfiles now.

Cheers,
Dave.
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