On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 19:46 +0200, Andreas Assmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed efax-gtk in Fedora 22 LXDE on my laptop, in order to send a
> fax from time to time; but I always receive this error-message:
>
> ###
>
> efax-0.9a: 17:12:45 Error: can't open pre-lock file
> /var/lock/TMP..02390: Permission denied
> efax-0.9a: 17:12:45 failed page /home/username/example.pdf.001
> efax-0.9a: 17:12:45 finished - unrecoverable error
>
> ###
>
> I don't understand this, because there is absolutely no tmp-file in
> /var/lock/, only five folders (iscsi, lockdev, lvm, ppp, subsys) and a
> file "asound.state.lock".
>
> Has anyone an idea of what is going wrong? Thanks for your help.
>
> Greetings
>
> Andrew
>
>
Sorry for the late reply. I don't think you have permission to create the tmp
file. Did you try:
touch /var/lock/TMP..02390
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