[Xorg] CVS warnings at commit...

Daniel Stone daniel at freedesktop.org
Thu Jul 1 08:35:15 PDT 2004


n Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:46:38AM -0600, Brian Paul wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >Of course you do - loginfo,v is 775. You don't edit the file directly,
> >you do cvs co CVSROOT from :ext:cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/mesa. You edit
> >loginfo there, and check it in. You'll also need to update checkoutlist.
> 
> I've tried various things, but always get errors like this:
> 
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/brian/.ssh/id_rsa':
> cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT' 
> (/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/mesa/CVSROOT'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> 
> 
> Is that a stale CVS lock?

Fixed.

> Thanks for the info.  I had no idea who was changing the CVS software 
> or why.

There's a security update every other day. :\

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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