From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 Description of problem: When booting the update kernel (2.4.3-12), any executable that is doing file locking fails (xauth list :0.0 at login times out waiting for lock on $HOME/.Xauthority, fetchmail prints error message about file locking, etc) Everything is OK when booting with 2.4.2-2 (default RH7.1 kernel) Hardware is Dell Optiplex GX200, 384 Mb RAM, Pentium III @ 666 Mhz, Westerm Digital WDC300 ATA disk (32 bit mode enabled) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot the machine with 2.4.3-12 kernel 2.run fetchmail 3.read the error message :-) Actual Results: fetchmail exits with err code 8, error message is: fetchmail: lock creation failed. Expected Results: fetchmail should have retrieved my mails of course ! ;-) Additional info: apparently same locking problem with xauth when opening an xterm under WindowMaker: message is: timeut waiting for lock on $HOME/.Xauthority when executing xauth list :0.0
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