Re: Giving up with SVN? [Re: Strange problems with svn.debian.org]

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:

> One problem on alioth seems to be subversion processes that just hang.
> This has happended to the d-i repository each morning for the past three
> days. All I can do is work around it by the brutal method of creating a
> new locks directory each time.
> 
> All or nearly all of the following processes on alioth are hung. Their
> owners (or the admins) might want to do something about them. If it's
> the hang I've been seeing, they'll be stuck in a select loop on fd 0.

I noticed this also. I also noticed that some files from the db
directory are www-data:www-data and I don't understand why this.
Wouldn't viewCVS the cause of those problems? I noticed that it
sometimes locks files without unlocking them.

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Jérôme Marant