Re: V 1.3.22: CVS Checkout from local: No such file or directory

["Birgit Guder" <bguder at gmx dot de>]

From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
To: "Birgit Guder" <bguder at gmx dot de>; <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: V 1.3.22: CVS Checkout from local: No such file or directory


> Birgit Guder wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I tried to setup cvs server on my windows 98 machine through cygwin.
> >> However I could not even manage to get the basics of cvs working. I
> >> create a new repository with:
> >>
> >> $ cvs -d/cygdrive/d/data/cvs init
> >>
> >> The directory /cygdrive/d/data/cvs exists and contains now a
subdirectory
> >> named CVSROOT.
> >> When I try to checkout the CVSROOT module , I get an error message "No
> >> such file or directory".
> >>
> >> $ cvs -d/cygdrive/d/data/cvs checkout CVSROOT
> >> cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
> >> cvs checkout: cannot create read lock in repository
> >> `/cygdrive/d/data/cvs/CVSROOT': No such file or directory
> >> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> >>
> >>
> >> What is going wrong here?
>
> Hmm. WFM, WinXP:
>
> max at pomello [~] $ mkdir -p /cygdrive/e/data/cvs
> max at pomello [~] $ cvs -d/cygdrive/e/data/cvs init
> max at pomello [~] $ cvs -d/cygdrive/e/data/cvs checkout CVSROOT
> cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT
> U CVSROOT/checkoutlist
> U CVSROOT/commitinfo
> U CVSROOT/config
> U CVSROOT/cvswrappers
> U CVSROOT/editinfo
> U CVSROOT/loginfo
> U CVSROOT/modules
> U CVSROOT/notify
> U CVSROOT/rcsinfo
> U CVSROOT/taginfo
> U CVSROOT/verifymsg
>
>
> Given the error messages, I guess you should check to see if init actually
> produced a CVSROOT.
>
> Max.
>

Just to be shure, I tried again. I still get the same error. The CVSROOT
directory is there and seems to contain all needed files:

Birgit at 1und1/1577-470 ~
$ ls -l -a /cygdrive/d/data/cvs/CVSROOT
total 49
drwxr-xr-x    3 Birgit   unknown         0 Mar 22 21:22 .
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       493 Mar 22 21:22 .#checkoutlist
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       760 Mar 22 21:22 .#commitinfo
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       527 Mar 22 21:22 .#config
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       753 Mar 22 21:22 .#cvswrappers
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1025 Mar 22 21:22 .#editinfo
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1141 Mar 22 21:22 .#loginfo
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1151 Mar 22 21:22 .#modules
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       564 Mar 22 21:22 .#notify
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       649 Mar 22 21:22 .#rcsinfo
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       879 Mar 22 21:22 .#taginfo
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1026 Mar 22 21:22 .#verifymsg
drwxr-xr-x    3 Birgit   unknown         0 Mar 22 21:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 Birgit   unknown         0 Mar 22 21:22 Emptydir
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       493 Mar 22 21:22 checkoutlist
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       695 Mar 22 21:22 checkoutlist,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       760 Mar 22 21:22 commitinfo
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       962 Mar 22 21:22 commitinfo,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       527 Mar 22 21:22 config
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       729 Mar 22 21:22 config,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       753 Mar 22 21:22 cvswrappers
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       955 Mar 22 21:22 cvswrappers,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1025 Mar 22 21:22 editinfo
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1227 Mar 22 21:22 editinfo,v
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown         0 Mar 22 21:22 history
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1141 Mar 22 21:22 loginfo
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1343 Mar 22 21:22 loginfo,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1151 Mar 22 21:22 modules
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1353 Mar 22 21:22 modules,v
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      3072 Mar 22 21:22 modules.db
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       564 Mar 22 21:22 notify
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       766 Mar 22 21:22 notify,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       649 Mar 22 21:22 rcsinfo
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       851 Mar 22 21:22 rcsinfo,v
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown       879 Mar 22 21:22 taginfo
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1081 Mar 22 21:22 taginfo,v
-rw-r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown         0 Mar 22 21:22 val-tags.db
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1026 Mar 22 21:22 verifymsg
-r--r--r--    1 Birgit   unknown      1228 Mar 22 21:22 verifymsg,v





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