RE: More CVS Woes

[Shigeki Misawa <misawa@bnl.gov>]

Is this related to the following 1995 CVS FAQ entry ?


 4H.7   I use AFS.  Is there anything I need to know?

        There is a problem with the way CVS performs its locking when the
        files are within AFS. When your current PTS id != your uid, the
        locks are not deleted.  The stat() system call returns the PTS id
        of the owner. If that id != your uid, CVS assumes you did not lock
        it, and leaves the lock files alone.  The next time you try to use
        it, it complains that someone has the repository locked.

                                Contributed by Michael Ganzberger

        [[This was against CVS 1.3.  Is it still in CVS 1.4?]]


Doug Olson writes:
 > I just did a chmod +w on the history file (???) and I got past the
 > >   cvs export: Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file
 > message, but then I was waiting for your (2762) locks.
 > Maybe it works for you now.
 > 
 > When last at BNL I asked some people about this cvs lock problem
 > and was told they had the problem too and kept a script
 > to manually remove the locks.
 > If this continues we should probably move the GC cvs development
 > repository to starsu00 local disk.
 > 
 > Doug
 > 
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: David M. Malon [mailto:malon@anl.gov]
 > > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 2:06 PM
 > > To: gcdev@sseos.lbl.gov
 > > Subject: More CVS Woes
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Does anyone know why I cannot check things out of CVS at RHIC?  I have
 > > succeeded in the past.
 > > 
 > >   starsu00 108% cvs export QE
 > >   cvs export: Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file
 > >   cvs [export aborted]: /afs/rhic/gc/cvs/CVSROOT/history: 
 > > Permission denied
 > >   starsu00 109% tokens
 > > 
 > >   Tokens held by the Cache Manager:
 > > 
 > >   User's (AFS ID 2762) tokens for afs@rhic [Expires Jul 23 15:26]
 > >      --End of list--
 > >   starsu00 110% which cvs
 > >   /opt/rhic/bin/cvs
 > >   starsu00 111% echo $CVSROOT
 > >   /afs/rhic/gc/cvs
 > > 
 > > I seem to have continual problems with CVS; usually, it's with locks.
 > > 
 > > Thanks for any insights.
 > > 
 > > David
 > > 
 >