cannot acquire lock: Lock FcntlFlock of {location}/.ipfs/repo.lock failed: operation not supported

• Mac OS X Catalina v10.15.4
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.11.2

Describe the bug Fails at startup. Fails again when restart attempted.

To Reproduce 0. Install clean version. Works fine with IPFS volume mounted on local storage.

1. Move volume to a NAS, using the utility within IPFS Desktop. In my case, it’s a Drobo 5N2 share. A .ipfs folder is viewable in the share after the IPFS volume move was performed.

2. IPFS restarts but immediately errors out. Error.log attached. error.log

Note: At this point the volume cannot be moved back to its original location.

Expected behavior Expected

Screenshots

Additional context config.json contains:

{
	"ipfsConfig": {
		"type": "go",
		"path": "/Volumes/IPFS-Eric/.ipfs",
		"flags": [
			"--migrate",
			"--enable-gc",
			"--routing",
			"dhtclient"
		],
		"keysize": 2048
	},
	"language": "en-US",
	"experiments": {
		"npmOnIpfs": false
	},
	"__internal__": {
		"migrations": {
			"version": "5.1.1"
		}
	},
	"openWebUIAtLaunch": false,
	"ipfsOnPath": true,
	"checkedCorsConfig": true
}

The path is correct.

CLI command ipfs config show returns:

{
  "API": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {}
  },
  "Addresses": {
    "API": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001",
    "Announce": [],
    "Gateway": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080",
    "NoAnnounce": [],
    "Swarm": [
      "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001",
      "/ip6/::/tcp/4001"
    ]
  },
  "AutoNAT": {},
  "Bootstrap": [
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmNnooDu7bfjPFoTZYxMNLWUQJyrVwtbZg5gBMjTezGAJN",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmQCU2EcMqAqQPR2i9bChDtGNJchTbq5TbXJJ16u19uLTa",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmbLHAnMoJPWSCR5Zhtx6BHJX9KiKNN6tpvbUcqanj75Nb",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/p2p/QmcZf59bWwK5XFi76CZX8cbJ4BhTzzA3gU1ZjYZcYW3dwt",
    "/ip4/104.131.131.82/tcp/4001/p2p/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ"
  ],
  "Datastore": {
    "BloomFilterSize": 0,
    "GCPeriod": "1h",
    "HashOnRead": false,
    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "path": "blocks",
            "shardFunc": "/repo/flatfs/shard/v1/next-to-last/2",
            "sync": true,
            "type": "flatfs"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "flatfs.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },
        {
          "child": {
            "compression": "none",
            "path": "datastore",
            "type": "levelds"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/",
          "prefix": "leveldb.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        }
      ],
      "type": "mount"
    },
    "StorageGCWatermark": 90,
    "StorageMax": "10GB"
  },
  "Discovery": {
    "MDNS": {
      "Enabled": true,
      "Interval": 10,
      "enabled": true
    }
  },
  "Experimental": {
    "FilestoreEnabled": false,
    "GraphsyncEnabled": false,
    "Libp2pStreamMounting": false,
    "P2pHttpProxy": false,
    "QUIC": false,
    "ShardingEnabled": false,
    "StrategicProviding": false,
    "UrlstoreEnabled": false
  },
  "Gateway": {
    "APICommands": [],
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": [
        "X-Requested-With",
        "Range",
        "User-Agent"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    "NoDNSLink": false,
    "NoFetch": false,
    "PathPrefixes": [],
    "PublicGateways": null,
    "RootRedirect": "",
    "Writable": false
  },
  "Identity": {
    "PeerID": "QmZE8vd6jUt8bmduEK6jBE6vGvEN5rzUNt8D39H92oWJmU"
  },
  "Ipns": {
    "RecordLifetime": "",
    "RepublishPeriod": "",
    "ResolveCacheSize": 128
  },
  "Mounts": {
    "FuseAllowOther": false,
    "IPFS": "/ipfs",
    "IPNS": "/ipns"
  },
  "Plugins": {
    "Plugins": null
  },
  "Provider": {
    "Strategy": ""
  },
  "Pubsub": {
    "DisableSigning": false,
    "Router": "",
    "StrictSignatureVerification": false
  },
  "Reprovider": {
    "Interval": "12h",
    "Strategy": "all"
  },
  "Routing": {
    "Type": "dht"
  },
  "Swarm": {
    "AddrFilters": null,
    "ConnMgr": {
      "GracePeriod": "300s",
      "HighWater": 300,
      "LowWater": 50,
      "Type": "basic"
    },
    "DisableBandwidthMetrics": false,
    "DisableNatPortMap": false,
    "DisableRelay": false,
    "EnableAutoRelay": false,
    "EnableRelayHop": false
  }
}

There is no Datastore.Path entry, although some documentation suggests there should be one. I don’t know if that’s relevant/helpful.

[hsanjuan]

A discussion about this problem has been started here: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/error-cannot-acquire-lock-lock-fcntlflock-of-path-to-repo-repo-lock-failed-operation-not-supported/10620/3

This is not an ipfs-desktop issue per se, and it has yet another duplicate here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/8005. Thus, closing.

[jessicaschilling]

@tmladek - as some core team members are away for winter holidays, I’d suggest checking and/or asking in the forums at discuss.ipfs.io to see if other folks in the larger community using NAS have experienced similar, or solved. Thanks!