Re: oslevel - unable to acquire lock

From: Timothy J. Bogart (tjb_at_starbase.starbaseunix.org)
Date: 10/09/03 

Date: 9 Oct 2003 09:46:05 -0500

In article <3f84962a$0$194$75868355@news.frii.net>,
Nicholas Dronen <ndronen@io.frii.com> wrote:
>Victor Lee <vilee@amdocs.com> wrote:
>VL> Hi
>
>VL> when I run the command 'oslevel' it gives an error saying 'unable to
>VL> acquire lock'. Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
>Sounds like a process locked one of the ODM files and died before
>unlocking it. I don't know the how-to for this. I'd start by
>looking for files in /etc/objrepos and /usr/lib/objrepos with
>names like "lock."
>

When I last ran into this, IBM said /usr was full. At the time, they were right. 8-) 

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