Re: "failed to create lock" even after a new repository!

[Jim Hyslop]

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HB wrote:
> I was having problems with CVS (urg!), so I completely scrapped the
> repository and created a new one.
> 
> I then get the following error when doing a "cvs status" on a new
> module:
> 
> cvs status: failed to create lock directory for `/Users/me/cvsroot/
> Project1' (/Users/me/cvsroot/Project1/#cvs.lock): No such file or
> directory
> cvs status: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/Users/me/cvsroot/
> Project1'
> cvs [status aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> 
> Project1 is an old project, obviously not in the repository anymore.
> 
> Any ideas what is going on?

It sounds like you're in a directory that was checked out with the
original repository, before you re-created it. What happens if you try
it from a copy checked out into a newly-created directory?

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Jim Hyslop
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