[imp] can't get cvs head update for imp

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Fri Aug 18 09:24:26 PDT 2006


Quoting Jim Ward <seker at uwyo.edu>:

> I get the the following error trying to update imp with cvs.  Here's  
> the transcript of the session.
>
>> setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvsread at anoncvs.horde.org:/repository
>> cvs login
> Logging in to :pserver:cvsread at anoncvs.horde.org:2401/repository
> CVS password:
>> cvs update -Pd
> cvs update: Updating .
> cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/repository/imp'  
> (/var/lock/cvs/imp/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/repository/imp'
> cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here or is there a problem with the  
> cvs server?

There was a problem with anoncvs. It should be fixed now; please let  
me know if it's not.

-chuck

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