[oe] DL_DIR on nfs mount -> lockfile mayhem

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 09:29 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> One of my coworkers ran out of diskspace again and decided to move his
> DL_DIR to the filer and access it over NFS. Now do_fetch just hangs for
> nearly everything and we can get it to continue after removing the
> lockfiles in DL_DIR manually, but that's not a good solution.
> 
> I don't touch NFS with a bargepole, but my coworker insists it's a valid
> use-case :) So, is DL_DIR on nfs supported and if so, any clues why it
> could break with lockfiles?
> 
> This is with bitbake 1.8 from git.

I ran bitbake with DL_DIR on nfs for a long time without issue. I
suspect something in their NFS setup is broken, maybe the part lockfile
handling part (lockd?). Do the syslogs say anything interesting?

Cheers,

Richard