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Re: cannot create lock file
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Rick Macdonald |
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Re: cannot create lock file |
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:24:17 -0600 (MDT) |
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Dalius Gilvydis wrote:
> Rick-
>
> This is very weird. I went ahead and reinstalled gnats. i made sure to
> run make install as user root, i still got the same problems. i went ahead
> and set the locks file to permissions 777. this time i was able to enter
> edit mode, but when i tried to save the changes, i got this error...
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> Error filing test/1
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> GNATSD error updating PRID 1: 500 GNATS server cannot create lock file:
> Permission denied
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> I don't really know where to go from here, because i'm not familiar with
> strace at all. you haven't seen anything like this before?
GNATS creates a global lock on the database when it goes to update the
index file. I think this file is created in the gnats-adm directory, so
open it up from 775 to 777.
Sorry, I just can't spot why you have the permission problems in the first
place.
...RickM...