[cvsnt] Re: "Cannot rename file" error

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri May 27 16:03:00 BST 2005


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Ennis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, I am on Win2000, latest rev of cvsnt, using pserver to the repository
> on a Solaris box.
> The Solaris is running CVS is 1.11.20. I believe.
> 
> When I check projects out, I am getting this error intermittantly:
> 
> cvs checkout: Updating svs/apacherelease
> U svs/apacherelease/apache_1.3.33.tar.gz
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file _new_apache_1.3.33.tar.gz to
> apache_1
> .3.33.tar.gz: Bad address
> 
> I have inherited a dubiously constructed repository, but for now... it is
> what it is.  I just need to get it working. 
> 
That's usually antivirus locking the files - you need to turn of 'real 
time' checking as it plays havok with the checkout process.

Someone else had it due to a bad disk driver that failed under high 
load, but that's an unusual case.

Tony



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