>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Doole <doole@ca.ibm.com> writes:

Douglas> Unfortunately, I don't have any other great ideas to offer you. I
Douglas> know the environment can be made to work, but I don't have any
Douglas> advise on debugging it. Sorry.

A student (he worked as a system manager on summer, so he knows this stuff)
solved the problem. NFS uses rpc.statd to give locks to files. It seems
"db2 prep file.sqc" tries to lock the file. On local disks, the filesystem
(or whatever) gives the lock, but on NFS disks, rpc.statd does them.

Since I only had nfs clients, I had not started the nfs daemon. This meant,
that I also had not started the rpc.statd, so no locks!

Of corse, the error message was wrong. It said that it did not find the SQC
file. It did find, but it could not lock it.

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Arto V. Viitanen av@cs.uta.fi
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Sciences
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/