On 20/01/2011 11:31, Rob McMahon wrote:
I've restored my b8 copy, and tried it anyway, having taken a backup
of everything this time. Starting with no profile (I deleted
~/.mozilla/firefox), I get
"The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one
of Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security
software can cause this problem."
...
Is there anything else I can do to help track this problem down ? I'd
like to help fix this problem. Note that this machine is running
Oracle Solaris 11 Express snv_151a X86, the same upgrade works fine on
my laptop running OpenIndiana 148 at home. There are, no doubt, other
differences between the two machines (like this machine has nVidia
graphics, my laptop has ATI). Any thoughts ? Am I the only one
having issues ?
Update. Looking through bugzilla, there are a number of comments about
network file systems. One difference between these two machines is that
the working one is using local (ZFS) storage, and the broken one is
using NFSv4 storage from a Solaris 10 box. The local storage there is
UFS. An interesting comment from the SQLite site:
"SQLite uses POSIX advisory locks to implement locking on Unix... One
should note that POSIX advisory locking is known to be buggy or even
unimplemented on many NFS implementations (including recent versions of
Mac OS X) and that there are reports of locking problems for network
filesystems under Windows. Your best defense is to not use SQLite for
files on a network filesystem. "
I think locking should be okay between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris
10, over NFSv4, though. And what has changed between b8 and b9 ?
Rob
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