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| | Part I. Miscellaneous subjects (and those still to be sorted) | |
A user complains that on his computer, he cannot remove an old firefox lock:
rm -f .mozilla/firefox/n5471qdb.default/.parentlock
rm: cannot remove `.mozilla/firefox/n5471qdb.default/.parentlock': Text file busy
The wd is ~, and mounted via CIFS, with oplocking turned off.
Irrespective of that, there is still a lock on that file, there are even two, according to the server:
smbstatus |grep -i lock
<snip>
Locked files:
Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time
<snip>
22762 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x120116 WRONLY NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/.parentlock Tue Mar 2 08:20:13 2010
11621 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x10000 RDONLY NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/.parentlock Tue Mar 2 15:56:32 2010
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The server also says that this particular user has many other files open:
sudo smbstatus |grep -i 107437
<snip>
22762 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x12019f RDWR NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/search.sqlite Tue Mar 2 08:20:14 2010
11621 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x12019f RDWR NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/search.sqlite Tue Mar 2 16:16:08 2010
11668 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x12019f RDWR NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/search.sqlite Tue Mar 2 16:17:38 2010
22762 10107437 DENY_NONE 0x12019f RDWR NONE /lwphome/p107437 .mozilla/firefox/n5371qdb.default/key3.db Tue Mar 2 08:20:14 2010
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Meanwhile on the samba client, even though the user is logged off everywhere, the home directory is still mounted.
Yet according to lsof, the .parentlock is not open.
Rebooting doesn't help.
Questions: How do we remove the file? Will flock -u be of any help? And how does the user remove it? And how do we reproduce the situation? And why is the share still mounted?
Another case:
server$ smbstatus
<snip>
Locked files:
Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time
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<snip>
29835 10252438 DENY_NONE 0x120116 WRONLY NONE /lwphome/p252438 .mozilla/firefox/qkgzlwdt.default/.parentlock Wed Apr 14 15:55:59 2010
<snip>
And after a lot of searching, the solution is excruciatingly simple:
user@client:~/.mozilla/firefox/qkgzlwdt.default$ mv .parentlock was.paren
user@client:~/.mozilla/firefox/qkgzlwdt.default$ rm was.paren
user@client:~/.mozilla/firefox/qkgzlwdt.default$
Now let's wait for another instance of the problem to see whether the mv is a solution, or this was a coincidence...
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