On Nov 23, 2020, at 19:05, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck@lyx.org> wrote:

LyX refuses to start, blocking at a call to
lockf(fd, F_LOCK, 0) at support/filetools.cpp, during startup. (I believe that fd here points at a file on the NFS share.)

Did you end up using NFSv4?  It sounds like a locking problem but the implementation differs significantly between v3 and v4.

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Jonathan Billings <billings@negate.org>