Re: Unable to commit to CVS

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

Thanks for the information Malcom. I'm still experiencing this problem.
I mailed gnome-sysadmin gnome org to get this fixed - is that the right
place to find the CVS admins?

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:28, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have the GNOME 2.4 Desktop User Guide lined up to commit to CVS, but I
> > get the following message, over and over:
> >
> > cvs server: [15:16:01] waiting for gnomecvs's lock in
> > /cvs/gnome/gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/figures
> > cvs server: [15:16:31] waiting for gnomecvs's lock in
> > /cvs/gnome/gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/figures
> > cvs server: [15:17:01] waiting for gnomecvs's lock in
> > /cvs/gnome/gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/figures
> >
> > Anyone any idea what's going on? Is this happening because a load of
> > people are trying to commit at the same time? I'm going to give up for
> > now and try again first thing tomorrow.
> 
> For future use: you may sometimes be blocked on a message like this for
> a couple of minutes if you are following another update around the tree
> (i.e. somebody is just ahead of you). Your cvs process will retry every
> 30 seconds to gain a lock in that directory.
> 
> If the problem persists for five minutes or so, then somebody's cvs
> process has terminated abnormally and an admin needs to go in and remove
> the lock file from the directory. Depending upon how the CVS repository
> is set up, this lock file will either be in the directory mentioned in
> the message (and will look like "#gnomecvs" or something similar -- I
> cannot remember the precise naming right now, but it's
> hash-something-involving-the-username) or it may be in another parallel
> directory structure (the setup if some people have read-only access and
> others have read-write access -- probably not the case for us). In
> either case, the CVS admins will know, or at least be able to hunt it
> down.
> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 
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