Fedora 33 Problem

[Kornel Benko]

Am Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:50:01 -0500
schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:

> 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)
> 
> at filetools.cpp, line 1262, in fileLock (called from LyX::init).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Riki
> 
> PS Qt 5.13.2
> 

The lock is there to prevent from a parallel started second lyx. Will be released after
the lyx-configure stopped. But I have no idea why this lockf() freezes.

Does it still work if you start lyx after the first successful run? (In that case
~/files/lyx/ also exists)

	Kornel
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