Fedora 33 Problem

Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org
Mon Nov 23 15:33:25 UTC 2020


On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:50:01AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> I upgraded to Fedora 33 yesterday, and since then LyX will not start if the
> user directory already exists and is on an NFS share. E.g.,
> 
> # lyx -userdir ~/files/lyx/
> 
> fails if ~/files/lyx/ exists and ~/files/ is an NFS mount. However, the same
> command succeeds if ~/files/lyx/ does not exist---it is created and
> populated as normal---and LyX is then able to open files on the same
> filesystem.
> 
> It seems to freeze in the call to
> 
> lockf(fd, F_LOCK, 0)

You could try to pass F_TLOCK instead of F_LOCK and check what error is returned
to get more info.
Pavel


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