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Bug 218652 - mailer does not work with NFS mounted home directory
mailer does not work with NFS mounted home directory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 206335
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-01-14 20:15 UTC by Jeff.Woods
Modified: 2002-01-14 21:12 UTC
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Description Jeff.Woods 2002-01-14 20:15:22 UTC 
To reproduce:
1. New installation of Evolution
2. set up mail account (IMAP to Exchange server)
3. Go into Inbox, press "Send/Receive Mail"

Error messages "Storing folder /home/sundev03a/jwoods/evolution/Inbox" and
"failed to get lock using fcntl(2): Permission denied" appear.  This error
does not happen for users with home directory on local disk (i.e., root) --
only for users with NFS mounted home directory.  NFS server is Solaris 2.8.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-01-14 21:12:52 UTC 
this usually means that the NFS server is not running the lock daemon
(or else the NFS server software doesn't support locking).

The workaround is to build evolution with different a different
locking mechanism or else to build with no locking at all (which is
"unsafe" but may be what you have to do if your NFS server doesn't
support locking).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206335 ***