[tech] Weird napoli locking(?) issue

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Oct 15 01:14:39 WST 2010


You could use something like ktrace(8) or Shark's System Trace to see 
what's going on? It doesn't really sound like a locking issue to me, but 
the combination of Linux NFS server and Mac OS NFS client does not inspire 
me.

David Adam
UCC Wheel Member
zanchey@

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> I should clarify that I'm saving to a subdirectory of my home
> directory, which is network mounted.
> -- d
> 
> On 14 October 2010 11:29, Daniel Axtens <danielax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having issues with re-saving files on napoli - an initial save
> > will succeed, but any subsequent attempts to modify the file fail.
> >
> > Steps to reproduce:
> >  - Open a file, say report.tex with TeXShop (the problem also occurs
> > with OpenOffice)
> >  - make a change to the file and save it. The save should succeed.
> >  - make another change to the file and attempt to save it. The save
> > will fail with a totally uninformative information message.
> >
> > Other information:
> >  - ls -la@ report.tex:
> >
> > -rw-r--r--@ 1 dja  wheel  4340 14 Oct 11:18 report.tex
> >        com.apple.FinderInfo      32
> >
> > I don't really know how to pull out the contents of FinderInfo.
> >


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