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Re: cvs not checkout in pwd, but some other strange place.
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Larry Jones |
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Re: cvs not checkout in pwd, but some other strange place. |
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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:49:58 -0400 |
Troels Kofoed Jacobsen writes:
>
> I have a problem. My /home and some other folders are automounted nfs
> shares via autofs. When I try to checkout form any cvs repository in my
> homefolder ($HOME/tmp) cvs will randomly tell me smomething like:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to /auto/data/myuser/tmp: No
> such file or directory
> note here that /auto/data is also an automounted nfs share.
> My /home is actually also mounted to /auto/home and then symlinked to
> /home...
> The strange thing is that this happens rather randomly. It will pick a
> seemingly random share mounted in /auto, think my user homefolder is
> under that and try to checkout to that dir. Sometimes it tries
> /auto/home and the checkout succeeds. If i create it says it is missing
> (e.g. /auto/data/myuser/tmp) it will checkout into that -- even though
> I'm in /home/myuser/tmp when writing the command.
There's something wrong in your OS -- either the automounter or the NFS
filesystem code. It's not a CVS problem. (This is why we recommend
against having working directories on NFS-mounted filesystems.)
--
Larry Jones
In short, open revolt and exile is the only hope for change? -- Calvin