Re: Problem finding lock

[Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, Code 6067]

Simon Renshaw wrote:
> I am using regular CVS 1.11.21 on the server and also used that client
> to do the commit.
>
> I restored a backup from the beginning of the month and the error is
> gone.
>
> And we don't see the directory when we do a checkout from within
> Eclipse. Since this is what I wanted, problem solved.
>
> But now I need to know how it got corrupted since we didn't touch the
> code that was in that directory (not made by us).

Please tell us that either:
A) your folks had made no changes to the data in the whole repository since 
the backup was made.
OR
B) you only restored the subdirectories that had the problems.
And/OR
C) you made a new backup just before restoring.

:(

> Now, if I want to run that script, I just need to remember where CVS is
> installed.

On a Unix system you should be able to issue `which cvs` to find the cvs 
binary you are using.
Note that if you are using one from a distribution, the contrib directory may 
be somewhere else, i.e., on fedora it is in /usr/share/cvs/contrib.
`locate contrib |grep -i cvs` might find it for you.

> Simon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 18 juillet, 2007 01:30
> To: Simon Renshaw
> Cc: cvs
> Subject: Re: Problem finding lock
>
> Simon Renshaw writes:
> > cvs [commit aborted]: mismatch in rcs file /usr/local/cvsroot/Castor
> > Model
> Objects/castor-1.0.2/tests/xml/MasterTestSuite/sourcegenerator/Any/any.x
> > sd,v between deltas and deltatexts (0.1)
>
> Are you perhaps using CVSNT rather than regular CVS?  I don't find any
> trace of that error message in the CVS sources.
>
> > Any idea what I should try next?
>
> Restoring that file from a backup -- the message pretty clearly
> indicates that the repository file has been corrupted.  You may want to
> try running the contrib/validate_repo (or contrib/check_cvs depending on
> which release of CVS you have) script against your repository to see if
> any other files are also damaged.  You should also try to figure out how
> the file got corrupted so you can prevent future damage.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Hello, I'm wondering if you sell kegs of dynamite. -- Calvin


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