Re: CVS commits
On 20.04.05 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> > On 16.04.05 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
Hi,
> >> OK, I can do an checkout (over DSL), but that won't probably happen
> >> before next week.
> >>
> > Tried to do a checkout an hour ago:
> >
> > <snip>
> > cvs server: Updating tetex-base/context/config
> > cvs server: Updating tetex-base/context/data
> > cvs server: Updating tetex-base/debian
> > cvs server: Updating tetex-base/debian/cweb-examples
> > cvs server: Updating tetex-base/debian/license-info
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/debian/license-info' (/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/debian/license-info/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/debian/license-info'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> > hille@preusse:~$
>
> This only happens for anonymous checkouts. And I have no idea why
> cvs would want to lock the directory at all if you are just doing a
> checkout; as far as I understand the Cederqvist, this is only done
> when a process needs write access. Well, cvs speaks about a "read
> lock". Maybe you can talk to the CVS maintainer.
>
The output has changed meanwhile a little. For tetex-bin
(experimental or unstable) everything is fine, I'll compare them
against the latest releases ASAP. For tetex-base we still get:
experimental:
preusse@preusse ~ $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/tetex -rexperimental co tetex-base
<snip>
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/mathplus
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/mathtime
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/times
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/license-info-locked
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked' (/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
preusse@preusse ~ $
unstable:
preusse@preusse ~ $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/tetex co tetex-base
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/mathplus
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/mathtime
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/fonts/vf/yandy/times
cvs server: Updating tetex-base/license-info-locked
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked' (/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/tetex/tetex-base/license-info-locked'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
preusse@preusse ~ $
Martin, do you have any idea, whats wrong? Is that easy to fix? As
far I understand google during reading the file to read is locked.
Regards,
Hilmar
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