Xorg CVS broken ("cvs diff: failed to obtain dir lock in...") ...

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Wed Nov 3 11:18:36 PST 2004


Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:25:17AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > It seems the CVS is now completely broken...
> > -- snip --
> > cvs diff: Diffing xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/bdm2/misc
> > cvs diff: Diffing xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/broken
> > cvs diff: failed to create lock directory for
> > `/cvs/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/broken'
> > (/cvs/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/broken/#cvs.lock): No such
> > file or directory
> > cvs diff: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/cvs/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/broken'
> > cvs [diff aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> > -- snip --
> >
> > Is there anyone who can look at the problem, please ?
> 
> rm -rf xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/broken should fix it.

I tried % cvs update -Pd # per ajax's suggestion and that fixed it,
too... :)

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Roland

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