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Rebooting server did fix the problem. Thanks again, Dwayne P. Dwayne Miller wrote: > I do in fact have a cvs.exe running. I'll try to kill it and see if > the problem goes away. > > Tks for the info. > > BTW... I believe the sequence of events that caused this were... > > I edited a file, tried to commit the change and that failed because > someone else had commit another change. I did an update on the file, > which resulted in it trying to merge two versions. The merge > operation never completed. > > Tks again. > Dwayne > > Keith D. Zimmerman wrote: > >> In my experience this was not the case - but I would have to recheck >> that. I am pretty sure that I killed all cvs.exe's and hanging locks >> remained. >> >> The persistent hanging lock thing has been a problem with windows that I >> have experienced before with other products. The server for my >> company's accounting system has been known to do it in the past, and we >> have accomplished much the same thing with visual studio across a file >> share a time or two... >> >> keith d. zimmerman, mcsd eagle solutions >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bo Berglund [mailto:Bo.Berglund at system3r.se] Sent: Thursday, >> February 13, 2003 10:52 AM >> To: Dwayne Miller; cvsnt at cvsnt.org >> Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Cannot rename file error >> >> >> This indicates a hung cvs.exe process in the server. It locks the file. >> Open up Task manager and look there for cvs.exe. There should normally >> be none visible because they are very transient in nature. But if you >> see one you have to kill it. >> >> Unfortunately this cannot be done from Task Manager, so you have to drop >> down to the command prompt and issue the 'kill cvs.exe' command, >> provided you have access to the kill command that came with an NT >> resource pack a while back. If you don't then SysInternals have a set of >> tools that includes an improved kill utility. These tools are free. >> >> I have set up a scheduled task that runs once each night at 4 AM and >> kills all cvs.exe that live then. No more problems. We had a few of >> those before when we were on 1.10.8, they all vanished with the >> schedule. >> >> Bo >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dwayne Miller [mailto:dmiller at espgroup.net] >> Sent: den 13 februari 2003 16:21 >> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org >> Subject: [cvsnt] Cannot rename file error >> >> >> We recently migrated our repository from an NT4 server to a Win2k >> server. In the process, we upgraded CVSNT to build 68. All of that >> might be unrelated, but provided just in case. >> >> For a single file, all users are getting a message when trying to commit >> >> a change: >> cvs [server aborted]: cannot rename file >> d:/cvs/pmp-docs/,sysTools_Readme.txt, to >> d:/cvs/pmp-docs/sysTools_Readme.txt,v: Permission denied >> >> All other operations on other files seem normal. >> >> I believe this started when cvs 'hung' when I was trying to check in >> this file. We are all using the WinCVS client, using the ntserver >> protocol. >> >> I cannot find a file named d:/cvs/pmp-docs/,sysTools_Readme.txt. But >> the file d:/cvs/pmp-docs/sysTools_Readme.txt,v does exist. It's >> read-only attribute is unset, whereas all other files in that >> directory are set to read-only. >> >> I've looked in the WINNT\Temp directory and see several CVS related >> directories and a few .tmp files, some of which are owned by me and have >> >> the contents of the file I'm trying to check in. But I'm not sure >> what to do with any of them to fix the problem. >> >> On an unrelated note, we are also seeing a new message when updating >> an entire directory: >> cvs server: cannot open directory . for empty check: No such file or >> directory >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Tks, >> Dwayne >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cvsnt mailing list >> cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cvsnt mailing list >> cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook >> >> >> >> >