Re: Getting lock during commit stalls cvs ci

[Todd Denniston]

address@hidden wrote:
> I haven't run into this problem before:
>
> cvs ci -m "" reader/home/reader/scripts/perl/fetchall_wrp.pl
> cvs commit: [11:15:42] waiting for reader's lock in
> /usr/local/cvsroot/base/reader/home/reader/scripts/perl
>
> I suspected file permission trouble but checking the files I see they
> both belong to reader and the containing directory as well
>
> ls -la shows:
>  drwxrwxr-x   4 reader users   2704 Jan 31 05:17 .
>  drwxrwxr-x  10 reader users   2344 Jan 31 05:12 ..
>  [...]
>  -r-xr-xr-x  1 reader users 1698 Sep 23  2004
>  /usr/local/cvsroot/base/reader/home/reader/scripts/perl/\
>  fetchall_wrp.pl,v
>
> And it is root doing the commit anyway.  I've enabled-rootcommit at
> compile time since its a single user machine, root and user are always
> the same thing.
>
> Anyone know what the error means?

According to the Troubleshooting page[1] of the manual, it is not an error but 
a normal message resulting from "Several developers simultaneously attempting 
to run CVS"[2].

Reading the manual[3] is a good thing for both users and administrators.

[1] up slightly from
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_21.html#IDX310

[2] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_10.html#SEC87

[3] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/