Jose Baltasar Garcia Perez-Schofield -Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos- wrote:

    I'm having trouble installing Self for Linux by Gordon Cichon.

    First of all, it is mandatory to install on your /home directory ?

    Once I made the variables, and type make on ../bin subdirectory, the

Makefile ONLY says:"Locks overcomed" (or similar), and, as you can imagine, the next step doesn't work.

    Is anybody there that could help me ?

Hi,

Frist, No, it is not mandatory in install the stuff inside the home directory.

Next, I could not find the place where your error message has been created. Generally, locking files with Linux is sonewhat troublesome. The Linux nfs implementation does not support real locks before kernel 2.2...

The first thing you could try is to find and remove all lock files that are laying around. (Something like -------- >8 -------- cut here -------- >8 -------- find $SELF_WORKING_DIR -name "_[a-z]*.lock" -exec rm {} ; -------- >8 -------- cut here -------- >8 -------- , be shure to set SELF_WORKING_DIR before!).

If that does not help, you may try to disable the locking mechanism alltogether. You have to put a script into your search path: -------- >8 -------- cut here -------- >8 -------- # !/bin/sh

eval "$2" -------- >8 -------- cut here -------- >8 -------- Put this in a file named `lock_run' on your path f.e. in $SELF_WORKING_DIR/bin/linux/, and do a `chmod +x lock_run' on it.

To find the real reason, it would be helpful to know, 1) kernel version, and 2) file system type (ext2, nfs, samba)

Gordon.