Comments on: “cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory” solution

By: amir

amir — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:44:42 +0000

In my case the problem was that a colleague had removed the specified directory from the repository (CVS doesn’t support this, but they went ahead and did it manually).

By: Pucik

Pucik — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:51:57 +0000

Hi all,
I had this problem when working with cvs files on UNIX, that has someone else checkouted with WinCVS with windows CRLF.
I had to change all those Repository files and it worked

for i in `grep -r -Pl $’rn’ . | grep Repository`; do dos2unix -o $i; done

Pucik

By: freshbee

freshbee — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:34:06 +0000

I too faced the same problem, but in my case two groups just need to check out each others directory. So its simple just give permissions such as 775 to the directories.
But yet the problem wasn’t solved.
The reason was /var/lock/cvs/ need to have write permission to the user who does check out this directory.
The problem solved.

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if still the problem persists kindly check the file /CVSROOT/config,
there u need to enable this field.
# Put CVS lock files in this directory rather than directly in the repository.
LockDir=/var/lock/cvs

this says that the lock will not be created in the repository, but in the lock directory, where the user will have write provision.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:46:32 +0000

Very Helpful Post. Tnx!

By: anuj

anuj — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:57:41 +0000

thanks. nice post…

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:17:02 +0000

Thanks, you saved my life!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:20:38 +0000

Thanks for the tip – exactly what I was looking for!

By: moore

moore — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:11:10 +0000

Freshbee,

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your fix. I’ve never run into the situation where I needed two groups to be able to check out one source tree.

So, am I correct in assuming you chmoded /var/lock/cvs to 777? That seems to be the only way to have two different groups have write permissions on one directory.

By: freshbee

freshbee — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:48:25 +0000

By: Prasanna V

Prasanna V — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:29:42 +0000

Very thankful to you,
It just worked swiftly.