2.5b4: Could not acquire lock [Errno 5] (dirstate)

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Tue Dec 20 23:28:25 UTC 2011


On 21 December 2011 09:26, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:

> I can't checkout a LP project (or work in it) on a NFS mounted home
> directory:
>
>    bzr clone lp:mediawiki-el
>
>    ... after few tries
>    ...
>    bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock
> "/home/jaalto/vc/epackage/mediawiki-el/.bzr/checkout/dirstate": [Errno 5]
> put/output error
>
> If I do the same in /tmp, no problems.
>

Locking is disabled on your nfs filesystem.  You need to enable it eg by
starting lockd or setting a mount option.  See http://pad.lv/108605

-- 
Martin
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