[Python-Dev] CVS fails to commit

Steve Holden sholden@holdenweb.com
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:02:10 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sjoerd Mullender" <sjoerd@acm.org>
> It looks like Jack's problems caused a lock file to be stuck there.  I
> expect this affects a small part of the repository, and also that it
> needs manual intervention to correct the problem.  So please submit a
> service request to SourceForge to remove the lock file(s) in
> /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib (and all subdirectories).
>
> On Wed, Aug 7 2002 "Steve Holden" wrote:
>
> > I find that this morning I am still prevented from committing changes to
> >
> >     ~/pythoncvs/python/dist/src/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex
> >
> > Is this a problem that's only affecting a small portion of the
repository,
> > or is it more general? To repeat yesterday's notification, the error
message
> > I'm seeing is:
> >
> >     cvs server: [04:14:04] waiting for jackjansen's lock in
> > /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/lib
> >

Whether by accident or in response to my posting I don't know, but I could
commit within five minutes of making the support request. Kudos to
SourceForge on this one?

regards
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