Yes, I've seen this behaviour before when deleting filespace through the
GUI,
try deleting them through the command line instead. It worked for me.

Nathan

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Jim Hunt [SMTP:Jim_Hunt AT VENCOR DOT COM]
        Sent:   Monday, February 08, 1999 3:28 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:

        Has anyone seen this before?

                              BACKGROUND completed with completion state
FAILURE at
                              16:18:03.
        02/08/99   16:18:08  ANR0390W A server database deadlock situation
has been
                              encountered: lock request for transaction
0:7307576
        will
                              be denied to resolve the deadlock.
        02/08/99   16:18:08  ANR9999D afutil.c(1016): Lock acquisition
(ixLock)
        failed
        more...   (<ENTER> to continue, 'C' to cancel)

                              for bitfile root 0.
        02/08/99   16:18:08  ANR0859E Data storage object erasure failure,
DELETE
                              FILESPACE process aborted.
        02/08/99   16:18:08  ANR0985I Process 9 for DELETE FILESPACE running
in the
                              BACKGROUND completed with completion state
FAILURE at
                              16:18:08.
        02/08/99   16:18:13  ANR0390W A server database deadlock situation
has been
                              encountered: lock request for transaction
0:7307585
        will
                              be denied to resolve the deadlock.
        02/08/99   16:18:13  ANR9999D afutil.c(1016): Lock acquisition
(ixLock)
        failed
                              for bitfile root 0.
        02/08/99   16:18:13  ANR0859E Data storage object erasure failure,
DELETE
                              FILESPACE process aborted.
        02/08/99   16:18:13  ANR0985I Process 10 for DELETE FILESPACE
running in
        the
                              BACKGROUND completed with completion state
FAILURE at
                              16:18:13.
        02/08/99   16:18:19  ANR0390W A server database deadlock situation
has been
                              encountered: lock request for transaction
0:7307594
        will
                              be denied to resolve the deadlock.
        02/08/99   16:18:19  ANR9999D afutil.c(1016): Lock acquisition
(ixLock)
        failed
                              for bitfile root 0.