Re: Strange errors when checking out to NFS-mounted home directories

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:32:24PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> At work, we are getting strange errors when checking out to our home
> directories which are mounted via NFS from a Network Appliance.
> 
> The errors seem to occur when checking out specific tags, but mostly when
> running an update with both the "-P" and "-d" flags, such as "cvs -q up -P
> -d".
> 
> Here is a sample of the error messages:
> 
> Using "cvs co -r tag austin":
> cvs checkout: cannot remove austin/old_public_html/customers: Unknown error
> 523

The first step is to find out what NetApp's error number 523 is
...  If they have an accessible /usr/include/sys/errno.h or
whatever, you're in luck.  If not, RTFM, or wait for their
support people to get back to you.

> Using "cvs -q up -P -d":
> cvs update: cannot remove old_public_html/rfq: Unknown error 523
> cvs update: cannot remove old_public_html/reporting: Unknown error 523
> 
> The directory old_public_html was removed log ago.  Why is it showing up 
> again now?

Because of the "-d" option.  If by "removed" you mean that the
files were "cvs rm"ed, then the directory (and the files) are
still present in the repo.  It wouldn't surprise me if "cvs
update -dP" does things suboptimally -- creates each directory,
then deletes it again if it ends up empty.

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