While working in Maestro, I get error messages in the terminal like:

WARNING : MMDBI ERROR(-4): mmproj_dbi_clear_undo(): Failed to clear the undo tables (database is locked)
WARNING : MMPROJ ERROR(-4): local_mmproj_prepare_db_for_potential_undo(): Failed to clear the undo

What does this mean?

These errors can appear when a project is stored on a shared file system such as NFS. Moving the project to a local file system may help.

Proper file locking is necessary for Maestro projects, so the following locations:

/var/lib/nfs/sm (on SUSE)

or

/var/lib/nfs/statd/sm (on RedHat)

must be writable when NFS is used. The permissions have to be set properly (700) and the owner needs to be the same as the rpc.statd daemon.

From Suite 2009, you can set the following environment variable to a local non-NFS location:

SCHRODINGER_SQLITE_TEMP_STORE_DIRECTORY

which should allow you to keep projects on a shared file system.

Keywords: project sqlite NFS

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