Re: Out of locks with FSFS on NFS

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 17:34, Bryan Linkous wrote:
> I have an FSFS style repository that is share over NFS. When I try to
> commit to a particular project in the repository, I get the following
> message:
>
> Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Can't get exclusive lock on file
> '/data1/subversion/repo/db/write-lock': No locks available

Make sure the directory /data1/subversion/repo/db/ is read, write, and
executable for you.

> I can commit and check out other projects without any problems.

Are these on the same NFS share?

Yes: it is probably the permissions.
No: it could also be that the lock-daemon is not running on the NFS-server,
ask your admins. (If you are the admin and you don't know what lockd is:
call your system support guy.)

        Konrad