Re: error in CVS: cvs: lock.c:222: lock_name: .......

[Todd Denniston]

cotton_gear wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to check out a tag as following:
> cvs checkout -P -r SPOW_1_1 spow (in directory E:\temp)
>
>
> But, I am getting the following error.  The cvs module name earlier
> was 'SPOW' and when it the repositry was moved to a new location it
> was changed to 'spow'. Could this be a reason behind the issue ? Then
> what is the solution for this problem.

I think the list is going to want to know
A) what is the version of the client you are using?
   i.e. the output of `cvs --version`
B) what is the version of the server you are using
   i.e. the output of `cvs --version` when ran on the server.

Note some CVS clients will output both the version of the client and server at 
the same time, but I don't remember which rev started doing that.


> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> cvs: lock.c:222: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__

<SNIP huge amount of almost un-parseable assert input>
> (current_parsed_root->directory)))) == 0' failed.
> cvs [server aborted]: received abort signal
> cvs checkout: in directory .:
> cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or
> directory
>
> ***** CVS exited normally with code 1 *****

The way I read this is that for some reason CVS can't find the CVS/Entries file.
You would not happen to either be running in cygwin or using a vfat file 
system would you?




BTW, I just noticed you put "in directory E:\temp", so it is most likely that 
you are running one of:
cygwin
CVSNT (different mailing list news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt )
Unix in VMware
"normal CVS" compiled for NT/XP/2K
please help us understand which to better answer your question.

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Todd Denniston
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