dirstate file locking doesn't work on smb mount on osx - bzr add, bzr status, and bzr commit fail over a SMB share

This should be fixed for metadir or knit repositories created with bzr 0.8 & later - they use lockdirs, not os locks.

Thanks for the report.

I think this has been "re-broken"
In bzr 1.7, any command fails were the repo is on an SMB share:

$ bzr status
bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "[Errno 45] Operation not supported"
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/lock.py:79: UserWarning: lock on <open file u'/Volumes/shared/bzr/centos/.bzr/checkout/dirstate', mode 'rb' at 0x13c43c8> not released
  warn("lock on %r not released" % self.f)
Exception exceptions.IOError: (45, 'Operation not supported') in <bound method _fcntl_ReadLock.__del__ of <bzrlib.lock._fcntl_ReadLock object at 0x13c92d0>> ignored

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Arjen Lentz wrote:
> I think this has been "re-broken"
> In bzr 1.7, any command fails were the repo is on an SMB share:
>
> $ bzr status
> bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "[Errno 45] Operation not supported"
> /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/lock.py:79: UserWarning: lock on <open file u'/Volumes/shared/bzr/centos/.bzr/checkout/dirstate', mode 'rb' at 0x13c43c8> not released
> warn("lock on %r not released" % self.f)
> Exception exceptions.IOError: (45, 'Operation not supported') in <bound method _fcntl_ReadLock.__del__ of <bzrlib.lock._fcntl_ReadLock object at 0x13c92d0>> ignored
>

We've never changed the requirement to allow an OS lock on
.bzr/checkout/dirstate.

So my guess is someone accidentally disabled Samba OS locks again.
Possibly because they upgraded SMB?

John
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Hi,
I tried to branch my local repository on my mac to a windows machine mounted by smb. The bzr branch fails with a similiar error message.

I use bzr 1.8 (binary installation) and have Mac OS X 10.5.5 installed. Here is what I get

bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "[Errno 45] Operation not supported"
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/lock.py:138: UserWarning: lock on <open file u'/Volumes/Experimente/MarkusMatlab/.bzr/checkout/dirstate', mode 'wb+' at 0x1fdee30> not released
  warn("lock on %r not released" % self.f)
Exception exceptions.IOError: (45, 'Operation not supported') in <bound method _fcntl_WriteLock.__del__ of <bzrlib.lock._fcntl_WriteLock object at 0x20181b0>> ignored
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/lockable_files.py:116: UserWarning: LockableFiles(<bzrlib.transport.local.LocalTransport url=file:///Volumes/Experimente/MarkusMatlab/.bzr/checkout/>) was gc'd while locked
  warnings.warn("%r was gc'd while locked" % self)

As John says, we've always needed file locks on dirstate files, so while the original version of this bug was fixed, a different occurrence remains open.

Since several people have reported this I'm assuming that SMB on Mac OS X doesn't support file locking by default, or at least not in a common configuration. However, samba, SMB/CIFS, and OS X do all support file locks, so it seems like it should be possible to find some workaround that will let bzr dirstate working trees function there.

I tried every version I could find from 1.13 down to 1.0 and they all had the same locking issue. I'm working around this for now by using sftp instead of samba.