Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:58:44 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: hwexler@nj.rr.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug report: linux_base-8 cannot upgrade through NFS Message-ID: <20050121115844.52f75385@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <BAY24-F216F9A49F834779B076FE8CC820@phx.gbl> References: <BAY24-F216F9A49F834779B076FE8CC820@phx.gbl>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:31:40 -0500
"Enoch W." <ixew@hotmail.com> wrote:
> This started a number of revisions ago.
Revisions of what? rpm, linux_base-8 or the OS?
> It has become impossible to upgrade from a ports collection that is NFS
> mounted.
Do you use the rpc.lockd on the NFS server? What version of the OS do
you have on the server and on the client?
> The error message is:
>
> ===> Installing for linux_base-8-8.0_6
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> kern.fallback_elf_brand: -1 -> 3
> redhat-release-8.0-8.noarch.rpm
> cannot get exclusive lock on database
> error: cannot open
> /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/work/linux_base-8-8.0/var/l
> ib/rpm/packages.rpm
> *** Error code 1
>
> Is there a solution except for copying the ports to a local drive?
As a workaround you can set the WRKDIRPREFIX to a local drive in
make.conf. All ports will get build there in a subdirectory then.
Bye,
Alexander.
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