Problem installing linux_base-8

[Johan Pettersson]

Thanks. That solved the problem.

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:36:17 -0500
David Dollar <dave at grepninja.com> wrote:

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> Johan,
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> Do you have your ports tree mounted over NFS? You are having a problem getting 
> an exclusive lock on one of the files during the install process of this 
> port. I have experienced this exact same issue when dealing with a ports tree 
> mounted over NFS.
> 
> I solved the problem temporarily by copying 
> the /usr/ports/emulation/linux_base-8 directory to another location on local 
> storage and make installing from there.
> 
> However, after much frustration with similar issues and issues of 
> synchronization (I had a common ports tree mapped on four FreeBSD machines) I 
> decided to move the ports back to local. I merely NFS map the distfiles 
> directory now.
> 
> Hope this information is of some help
> 
> - --
> David Dollar
> ddollar at grepninja.com
> 
> On Tuesday 10 February 2004 08:42 pm, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> > Im trying to install linux_base-8 but it fails with this:
> >
> > ===>   linux_base-8-8.0_4 depends on executable: rpm - found
> > kern.fallback_elf_brand: 3 -> 3
> > glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386.rpm
> > cannot get exclusive lock on database
> > error: cannot open
> > /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/work/linux_base-8-8.0/var/lib/rpm/package
> >s.rpm *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8.
> > beard /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8#
> >
> > Any solution?
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