RE: 'No such file or directoryctory' [sic] error

[Matt Doar]

IIRC, you can fix the error message by changing the default line ending
when you install/update cygwin. The actual cause of the error may well
be a permissions issue on the directory that is named. Take a look at
the repository for directories added without propagating their parent's
permission, and so not being group writeable.

~Matt

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Alex Hunsley
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:00 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: 'No such file or directoryctory' [sic] error
> 
> I'm running CVS under cygwin on a win XP machine. Cygwin is 
> up to date, 
> and cvs version on cygwin is 1.11.17. I'm attaching to a CVS 
> pserver (no 
> ssh involved) running on a fedora core 3 machine (which is 
> also kept up 
> to date).
> 
> I'm having a persistent problem whereby when I try to commit a local 
> sandbox version of a module I get this error:
> 
> [snip most of normal output]
> ? dev/OLD
> ? dev/DOCUMENTATION
> ? dev/CTREE
> /#cvs.lock): No such file or directoryctory for `/var/lib/cvsroot/dev
> cvs commit: lock failed - giving up
> cvs [commit aborted]: lock failed - giving up
> 
> Note that the error really does say "directoryctory", this is 
> not a typo.
> Having googled for similar things, I found out that this 
> problem tends 
> to happen on windows version of cvs, and what is actually 
> happening is 
> that there is a code 0x0d (carriage return) somewhere in the 
> /var/lib/cvsroot/dev string, and by checking via dump.exe, I have 
> confirmed this.
> I've no udea why this happens - some of my repostories are ok, but 
> there's one of them that this keeps eventually happening with. I'm 
> certainly not using any of the banned characters (e.g. + or =) in my 
> repository file names, and I'm not accessing a sandbox over a mapped 
> network drive, which I understand to be a no-no (the sandbox 
> is just at 
> the folder d:/dev).
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> thanks!
> alex
> 
> 
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