[Biojava-l] CVS update problem

[Jason Stajich]

It's a minor problem on the anoncvs end - I'm passing on the msg to
the openbio admin list (root-l at open-bio.org if you ever need help), we
migrated anoncvs to new hardware recently so this may be an artifact.

we will get it fixed shortly I expect.

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 linusben@bawi.org wrote:

> Hi, Thomas
>
> I have the same problem when I checkout biojava-live
> using anonymous CVS (In fact, I found this a few days ago.).
>
> U biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/io/package.html
> cvs server: Updating biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/math
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> `/home/repository/biojava/biojava-live/sr
> c/org/biojava/utils/math'
> (/home/repository/biojava/biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/ma
> th/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/home/repository/biojava/biojava-liv
> e/src/org/biojava/utils/math'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
> Is it a problem for anonymous CVS only? If it is true,
> how can I recieve the biojava-live product?
> (I cannot find the information about this on biojava.org site.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Taejoon Kwon
> linusben@bawi.org
>
> -----
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:51:01AM -0400, Simon Foote wrote:
> > Anyone had the following problem when updating there cvs copy of
> > biojava
> > recently:
> >
> > cvs update
> > ...
> > cvs server: Updating src/org/biojava/utils/math
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> > `/home/repository/biojava/biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/math'
> > (/home/repository/biojava/biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/math/#cvs.lock):
> > Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/home/repository/biojava/biojava-live/src/org/biojava/utils/math'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
>
> I've just tried an update, which went through fine (you don't
> specify this, but I presume you are using the main server
> rather than anonymous CVS).  My normal suspicion when I see
> errors like this is that some file ownerships in the repository
> have got messed up, but I've done a quick check and can't find
> anything suspicious.
>
> It may well just have been a transient error -- CVS doesn't handle
> multiple concurant accesses terribly gracefully.
>
> Let me know if the problem persists,
>
>     Thomas.
>
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Jason Stajich
Duke University
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