Fedora 33 Problem

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 11/23/20 11:15 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 11/23/20 10:02 AM, Kornel Benko wrote:
>> 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)
>
> No, weirdly, it works when we need to create the directory from 
> scratch, but not if it's there. (It doesn't matter whether there's 
> anything in it.)

Well, the 'good' news is that Libre Office freezes when I attempt to 
open files from an NFS share as well. So it looks like it is not our 
problem.

Riki