Re: [Savannah-hackers] [support #103137] CVS locked when updatingclasspath

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hello Yaroslav,

Yaroslav Klyukin said:
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>
>> Summary:  CVS locked when updating classpath
>>
>> Original Submission:  When updating cvs checkout or checking it out
>> freshly we get the following message:
>>
>> cvs update: [14:47:46] waiting for uid65534's lock in
>> /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/doc/api/xslt/common
>
> Looks like uid 65534 is a "nobody"

Yes, the nobody user is used for anoncvs.

> Is it possible that an anonymous user is downloading something from CVS
> and creates a lock?

Yes, when when a checkout occurs on a file a read lock is created, and
released (unlinked) when the file has been checked-out.

We've had some CVS problems today (quite a few stuck CVS processes from
June 1[67]0, which is what I think caused this.

-- 
Elfyn