Bug 3084
Summary: | problem creating certain types of locks (specifically the nsProfileLock used by mozilla) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Product: | File System | Reporter: | Rohit Mehta (rohitm) |
Component: | Samba/SMB | Assignee: | fs_samba-smb |
Status: | REJECTED UNREPRODUCIBLE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | diegocg, protasnb |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | 2.4.25-2.6.7 | Subsystem: | |
Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: |
Description
Rohit Mehta
2004-07-16 08:51:31 UTC
In the newest vestion of firefox 0.9.1 available at www.backports.org this problem does not appear. I am not sure if profile locking was disabled or not. I am not sure what bit of mozilla 1.7/firefox 0.8 profile locking code triggered the problem. Fcntl locking works fine on smbfs mounted filesystems in 2.4.25-2.6.7 kernels. There is a Lock_with_symlink method in the Mozilla code that looks very complicated. I have not been able to test this method in isolation. Since the newest version of firefox works for us, the problem has become a lot less urgent. Have you seen this bug happen in recent kernels? I have not tested it with the newest kernel. I will test and update. However I think the problem is nonexistent using NFS, possibly CIFSFS as well. I will install the newest kernel on a machine test and update as soon as I am able. SMBFS is being deprecated, you should try CIFS instead (see http://lwn.net/Articles/183693/ Rohit, any update on this? Have you switch to CIFS, and do you have any problems with locking now? I suppose you're using recent kernels. Thanks. Closing this bug, since no recent activity. Please reopen if still a problem. |