changeset 38410:8d7f5ed7deaa

Mounting a volume onto itself might also produce "text file busy".
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:31:32 +0000
parents 153f1b1f2efd
children 2fc02d49a9a4
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Jul 14 11:21:08 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Jul 14 15:31:32 2001 +0000
@@ -263,6 +263,15 @@
 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
 to work around the problem.
 
+Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
+onto itself.  Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
+you are working on the host called `marvin'.  Then an entry in the
+`/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
+
+    marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
+
+The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
+
 * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
 
 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1).  If the problem persists with