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

[Mark D. Baushke]

Geoff Beier <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

Is your repository configured to put the locks in a separate directory
hierarchy? Check to see if the CVSROOT/config file has specified a
LockDir directory.

        -- Mark