Fedora 33 Problem

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Mon Nov 23 15:10:56 UTC 2020


Am Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:07:26 +0100
schrieb Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org>:

> Am Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:02:41 +0100
> schrieb Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org>:
> 
> > 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  
> 
> We could check, if the lockfile exists first, and create before locking.
> 
> 	Kornel

Sorry, we do it already :(

	Kornel
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