[1308] in NetBSD-Development
Re: xmcd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Tue May 7 08:13:00 1996
Resent-From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
Resent-To: netbsd-afs@MIT.EDU
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, jtkohl@MIT.EDU, mycroft@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 May 1996 17:56:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: Eric Mumpower's message of Mon, 6 May 1996 16:59:06 -0400
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU> writes:
Eric> xmcd is unhappy under netbsd on zsr:
Eric> upon initially running it:
Eric> Couldn't relinquish (rc) lock: Invalid argument Couldn't
Eric> relinquish (db) lock: Invalid argument Couldn't relinquish
Eric> (rc) lock: Invalid argument
Eric> when I tried to set a CD's info in the "CD Info" popup:
Eric> Warning: Couldn't relinquish write lock: Invalid argument
Eric> Warning: Couldn't relinquish write lock: Invalid argument
Eric> Warning: Couldn't relinquish write lock: Invalid argument
The AFS on zsr tends to do this when you use fcntl to do a
full-file lock, an operation that *could* be made to work within AFS
locking semantics. I don't see the problem with older NetBSD systems
(lime, granola), but don't know if it it is kernel or AFS changes that
cause it.