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Hello Tony! Thanks a lot!!! Although NewServer is the one that runs CVSNT and the lockserver, this "superfluous" entry was the problem! Best regards, Melanie "Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:fgpt8a$20n$1 at paris.nodomain.org... > MusiMeli wrote: >> # LockServer Default lock server location. Can be overridden by >> # LockServer directive in individual repositories. >> LockServer=NewServer:2402 > > Comment this out. It is almost never required to have the lockserver on a > separate server to the main cvsnt server. > >> Then I found an "outstanding bug" for Debian: "cvsnt: cvslockd crashes at >> startup": > > From the comments they had an invalid network configuration (their > hostname->ip address lookup returned 127.0.0.1, so it was impossible for > software to find out the IP address of the machine). 2382 used to detect > this and display the error but still fall over later.. that was fixed a > while back. > > > cvs init: connect to NewServer(NewServer):2402 failed: Connection > > refused > > Probably 'NewServer' isn't running a lockserver. As mentioned before, > don't try to put lockserver on a different machine like that unless you > have an already working server to start with - there are too many things > that need configuring first - eg. lockserver itself won't listen on public > IPs by default. Multi-machine servers although possible (with a SAN) > aren't something that is very common. > > cvs.cvsnt.org runs on a 64bit debian box btw. so that configuration > probably has more testing than most. > > Tony