I have also had problems with NFS and locking under linux. Starting with SuSE 6.3 I started using the kernel based NFS as opposed to the user space NFS service, and my locking problems (between SCO and linux) have been resolved. I dont know if this would be any help, but it is probably worth looking into. Derek Fountain wrote:

Over the weekend I moved my home directory onto my server and exported it over NFS. Now, whichever machine I log onto, I get the same home directory. Great! Should have done it ages ago.

But I hit a problem with Staroffice. Basically, it locked up before the splash screen. I did an strace on the binary and found the lock happened when it opened .sversionrc in my home directory. It's opened with a read file lock, and I suspect this doesn't work properly over NFS. I created a /home.local/derek directory on the only machine I use SO on, and moved the Staroffice files into it. A couple of soft links from my NFS mounted home directory and the problem was solved. Of course, this work around means that I can only use SO from one machine (the one with the /home.local directory on it's disk).

I seem to remember a similar problem with Wordperfect. Can anyone confirm what is going on, or if the 2.4 kernel will solve the problem?

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