[cvsnt] Re: failed to obtain lock

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sun Mar 27 17:54:22 BST 2005


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Lewis Looks-Twice wrote:
> I was doing a checkout of a lot of big files, and then it said:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: EOF while looking for end of string in RCS file 
> d:\cvsre
> po/dice/dicebot/i2d79.ini,v
> 
That sounds like the file has been truncated... that can't happen in 
normal cvs processes (since it the file updates are done atomically).

Together with things 'suddenly' not working when they did before I'd be 
suspicious of the integrity of the machine.. Running a disk checker is 
strongly advised.

Tony



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