Re: CVS Locking Problem

[Larry Jones]

Carl Hume writes:
> 
> I'm trying to tag my project using the following command:
> 
> cvs -d /var/cvsroot tag -R -b tagname
> 
> and I receive the following error:
> 
> cvs tag: [13:21:11] waiting for carl's lock in
> /var/cvsroot/koa/www/gameimages/artifact
> 
> cvs rechecks every 30 seconds, and the lock still exists.  Unfortunately,
> when I check the directory:
[...]
> I find nothing that looks like a lock.

It sounds like the command is locking itself out.  Do you perhaps have
that subdirectory checked out out more than once under your current
working directory or have symbolic links in the repository that would
result in the same thing?  It would be helpful to see the output from
``cvs version'' in your working directory as well as the output from the
above command with the -t global option to trace the execution.
-- 
Larry Jones

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