"Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TG> Does anyone know why I keep getting this: > > TG> $ cvs diff > diff.out > > TG> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for > `/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot' > > TG> (/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory > > TG> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository > > TG> `/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot' > > TG> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up > > > > TG> Both cvs co and cvs update work fine. > > > IM> Looks like you have no permissions to check in. > > But I shouldn't need ci privledges to do a cvs diff should I?
No you needn't ci privledges to make a diff (at least not the last time I did it). The problem is the ancient directory "Parrot". This was long ago moved to lib/Parrot. This move was done by moving the directory on the CVS server. cvs update does not fail on this missing directory but issues a warning: cvs server: Updating Parrot cvs server: cannot open directory /cvs/public/parrot/Parrot: No such file or directory cvs server: skipping directory Parrot This messages is very well hidden between Updating ... messages, so will normaly not be recognized. If you use cvs update -dP, and the directory is empty it will then be deleted and never cause trouble any more. Unfortunatly there are some autogenerated files in this directory which are not deleted by make clean, so the directory survives the update. For cvs diff the missing directory on the server is not just a warning but a fatal error. Solution: rm -rf Parrot (but make sure there is nothing left in the directory you wanted to keep ;-)). Bye boemmels -- Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel: ++49-(0)631-205-2817 Universitaet Kaiserslautern Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3906 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F 56 54 3D 45 C1 32 6F 23 F6 C7 2F 85 93 DD 47
