Cvs Error Writing To Lock File Save
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for visiting!For those of us still using CVS, rather than the highly acclaimed subversion, I wanted to outline cvs commit: lock failed - giving up a solution to a common problem I've often seen: One user cvs lock file creates a cvs module (named, for example, project) and checks in a number of files and directories. Then cvs user permissions another developer tries to check out the module and sees this error. (Here's another explanation of the solution.) : cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
Cvs Checkout Command
`/usr/local/cvsrepo/project'
(/usr/local/cvsrepo/project/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
: cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
`/usr/local/cvsrepo/project'
: cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up If you go to /usr/local/cvsrepo/project, and run an ls -l, you'll see that the permissions look like: ...
drwxrwxr-x 2 user group 4096 Feb 16 09:40 bin
... This error message comes from the fact that the second user is not a member of group group. The best way to solve this is to create a second group, perhaps called cvs, and assign both users to that group. Then, you want to make sure that all the files have the correct group bit set: chown -R :cvs /usr/local/cvsrepo/project And, you want to make sure that any new directories (and files) added use the cvs group, rather than the group group: chmod -R g+ws /usr/local/cvsrepo/project Your final permissions should look like: ...
drwxrwsr-x 2 user cvs 4096 Feb 16 09:40 bin
... Now the second user and any other developers should be able to check out the code so safely stored in cvs. Programming | moore | February 16, 2005 29 thoughts on “"cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory" solution” Prateep Kulapalanont says: Exactly what I have the problem after read CVS for Leopard . Thanks Pradeep says: Hats Off Great work! Timely Hel
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II: Using CVS Chapter 3: Basic Use of CVS Chapter 4: Tagging and Branching Chapter 5: Multiple Users Part III: CVS Administration Chapter http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Essential_CVS/CVS_Administration/Repository_Management 6: Repository Management Chapter 7: Project Management Chapter 8: Remote Repositories Chapter 9: Troubleshooting Part IV: Reference Chapter 10: Command Reference Chapter 11: Miscellaneous Topics Reference Part http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue66/sharma.html V: Appendixes Appendix A: Clients and Operating Systems Appendix B: Administrator's Tools CVS Quick Reference Colophon This chapter is about the repository and the projects stored in it. lock file If you want a quick guide to creating an initial repository, see the instructions in Chapter 2. Topics covered in this chapter include repository creation, configuration, security, backup, and recovery. This chapter also covers the structure of the repository and the sandbox, the file locking CVS uses internally, how to edit the repository manually, and cvs error writing the CVS administrative files and environment variables. CVS uses the term CVSROOT in two different ways. As the environment variable, it refers to the root directory of the repository. However, inside the repository is a directory called CVSROOT. To avoid confusion, this chapter never refers to the root directory of the repository as CVSROOT, and, except when mentioning the environment variable, this chapter uses the term solely to refer to the CVSROOT subdirectory of the repository root directory. Tip If your repository is in /var/lib/cvs, then /var/lib/cvs is the repository root directory and /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT is the repository's CVSROOT directory. Contents 1 Creating a Repository 2 Deleting a Repository 3 Securing Your Projects 3.1 Repository Root Directory 3.2 CVSROOT Directory 3.3 Project Directories 3.4 General Information on Security 4 Repository Structure 4.1 CVS Subdirectory 4.2 Locks 5 CVSROOT Files 5.1 Configuration Files 5.1.1 config 5.1.2 cvswrappers 5.1.3 modules 5.1.4 notify 5.2 Scripting Files 5.2.1 commitinfo 5.2.2 editinfo 5.2.3 loginfo 5.2.4 rcsinfo 5.2.5 taginfo 5.2.6
add-ons to CVS More information Overview CVS is a version control system. Using it, you can record the history of your source files. CVS helps if you are part of a group of people working on the same project, sharing the same code. Several developers can work on the same project remotely using CVS's client-server model in which the code exists on a central server and each programmer get the source on his local machine from the CVS server (checkout) and save it back on the CVS server (checkin) after development. Each time a programmer checks in his new code into the CVS server, the difference is saved as a new version rather than overwriting the previous version. This allows the server to recreate any previous version upon request, although by default it distributes the latest version. This article explains how to use CVS in client-server mode and get the most out of it. Getting CVS You can find CVS in your Linux distribution or get the source from http://www.cvshome.org/downloads.html The home page for CVS is http://www.cvshome.org. The repository The CVS repository stores a complete copy of all the files and directories which are under version control. Normally, you never access any of the files in the repository directly. Instead, you use CVS commands to get your own copy of the files into a working directory, and then work on that copy. When you've finished a set of changes, you check (or commit) them back into the repository. The repository then contains the changes which you have made, as well as recording exactly what you changed, when you changed it, and other such information. Creating a Repository To create a repository, run the CVS init command. It will set up an empty repository in the CVS root specified in the usual way . cvs -d /usr/local/cvsroot init Here /usr/local/cvsroot will become the repository. CVSROOT environment variable Set the CVSROOT environment variable in your shell startup script. For instance, in ~/.bashrc: $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@foo.com:/usr/local/cvsroot Backing up the Repository There are a few issues to consider when backing up the repository: One should either not use CVS during the backup, or have the backup program lock CVS while doing the backup. To lock CVS, you would create `#cvs.rfl' lock files in each repository directory. Remote Repositories Your working