waiting for user's lock when there does not appear to be any

[Geoff Beier]

Hi All,

Please forgive me if this seems like an FAQ; the answers I turned up in the
manual and in the list archives haven't worked, and I'm completely stumped here.

Whenever I attempt to access a particular directory in our repository, I get
the following message:

cvs checkout: [11:13:24] waiting for smith's lock in
/var/cvsrepository/marvin/src/com/caradas/cthh/util

I've checked, and smith does not have any cvs processes running on this
server. After that, I went into the repository itself to look for things like
'#cvs.rfl' '#cvs.wfl' or '#cvs.lock' and did not find anything similar in the
directory in question, its parent, or any of its children.

Does anyone have any idea what else could be causing this message and how I
can make it stop?

Thanks,

Geoff