Hi,

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine
> when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share
> and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any
> ideas how to stop this happening?
> [...]
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 159, in
> unlockfile locking_method(myfd,fcntl.LOCK_UN)
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
> Error in sys.exitfunc:

Look at /etc/make.conf.example:

First try cleaning the locks using
/usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks
If that doesn't work, you have more options:
- specify a PORTAGE_TMPFS (albeit I'm not sure if this applies for
  distfiles locks, too),
- remove "distlocks" FEATURE.

-hwh
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