CVS lock error-help needed

[Paddy T]

Hi
I haven't got any response for this question.If anyone
ever got such an error,pls give the remedy.I am still
unable to delete these lock files from the
reposiitory.

Thanks,
Paddy Thomas
--- Paddy T <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
> I am getting the following CVS lock error.
> 
> One developer tried CVS update and got the error 
> 
> "cvs update aborted fatal signal 11 sent
> cvs locks may need cleaning up"
> 
> at the file
> /$CVSROOT/src/images/fforward.bmp
> 
> Then she tried the update several times before
> informing me.
> When I saw in that dir in the repository,there were
> read lock files with that developer as the owner.
> I tried to manually delete these files;but I was
> unable to remove those files in any way.After I give
> rm command,it comes back to the shell prompt without
> any error msg and also not deleting the files.
> Later we tried to update from her working directory
> in
> order to reproduce the error.
> Then we got the following error.
> "move away fforward.bmp it is in the way
> move away fback.bmp it is in the way
> cvs server created a cvs-serv***** directories in
> /tmp
> directory.Lock files may need cleaning up."
> (similar error msg;not these exact words)
> I removed the cvs-serv*** files;still I am not able
> to
> remove the read lock files in the repository.
> And still she is unable to do update.
> 1.All the file names in images directory had been
> changed from upper to lower case;but why only these
> 2
> files are giving that error?
> 2.How can I remove the lock files from the
> repository?
> They are shown by ls -l below.
> -rw-r--r--  1 ckand     mnidev       0 Apr 12 16:05
> #cvs.rfl.everex.mni.com.
> 33750
> -rw-r--r--  1 ckand     mnidev       0 Apr 12 16:05
> #cvs.rfl.everex.mni.com.
> 33752
> -rw-r--r--  1 ckand     mnidev       0 Apr 12 16:06
> #cvs.rfl.everex.mni.com.
> 33754
> -rw-r--r--  1 ckand     mnidev       0 Apr 12 16:07
> #cvs.rfl.everex.mni.com.
> 33756
> -rw-r--r--  1 ckand     mnidev       0 Apr 12 16:29
> #cvs.rfl.everex.mni.com.
> 33955                                  
> 
> Pls advice what I can do??
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Paddy Thomas
> 
> 
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