Ah, thanks for that. Yes, the error message is very misleading & says nothing about locking at all - a great way to confuse the user. I'll retitle the bug.
** Summary changed: - f-spot crashes at startup complains about "Unsupported database version" + f-spot crashes at startup complains about "Unsupported database version" - Bad error message when NFS locking fails -- f-spot crashes at startup complains about "Unsupported database version" - Bad error message when NFS locking fails https://launchpad.net/bugs/63484 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs