[cvsnt] Re: Cannot lock Server

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sat Oct 30 03:16:29 BST 2004


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Glen Starrett wrote:
> Nikolai Onken wrote:
> 
>> I've reinstalled a repository on a new computer and everything works fine
>> but commiting a new file after adding it to the repository.
>> I always get an error like following:
>>
>> cvs server: cannot lock `C:/GlobalFramework/web/framework/index.php,v'.
>>
>> Error, CVS operation failed
> 
> 
> Is the LockServer service running?
> 
That's an RCS lock failure - it's probably that someone has used admin 
-l on the file (the only other failure mode that I can see would be 
setting an invalid revision, which might be possible but hard to do 
accidentally).

Tony



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