Re: cvs server: waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb

Philip Blundell
2001-05-03T05:53:00Z

>Is there any reasonable way to prevent anoncvs from locking the
>repository for prolonged periods of time? I've just committed a small
>change, and now I'm sitting before the terminal for 30 minutes staring at
>``waiting for anoncvs's lock'' messages. And it's not over yet.

If you were stuck for this long, it almost certainly means a CVS process has
died and left a stale lock in the repository. Someone needs to go in and
delete it manually.

The problem isn't specific to anonymous access; that's not to say it mightn't
be a good thing to get anoncvs out of the main repository and on to some kind
of mirror.

p.