On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Gervase Markham wrote: > [Apologies if this is the wrong place for this bug report - cvshome.org > is so impenetrable that I can't even search to see if this is an > upstream cvs bug or not.] > > In Cygwin CVS 1.11.6-3 (but not 1.11.5-1 or 1.11.0-1), when trying to > pull by tag, the following error is encountered: > > D:\mozilla>cvs -d //machine/share co -P -r NSPRPUB_PRE_4_2_CLIENT_BRANCH > mozilla/nsprpub > cvs checkout: warning: cannot open //machine/share/CVSROOT/val-tags > read/write > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot read //machine/share/CVSROOT/val-tags > > Many other CVS operations (checkout, checkin, update) seem to work fine > - it's only pulling by tag which fails. > > The repository in question is a copy of the Mozilla CVS repository, > rsynced to a Win2K machine using Cygwin rsync and then SMB shared as > readable and writable by all. > > The client machines we tried this on were running Win2K or Win2K3. > CVSROOT was "//machine/sharepoint" when we didn't specify it on the > command line. CYGWIN was set to "nontsec". The machine can cat and touch > the val-tags file on the share - it seems that only the CVS process > cannot see it correctly. > > We solved the issue by downgrading CVS to 1.11.5-1 using the Cygwin > setup.exe, so the problem is not urgent for us. > > If more information is required, please ask. I'm subscribed to the > digest version of the list, so it may take a day or two to get a response. > > Many thanks for your time, > Gerv
Gerv, I wonder if it's related to CVS's inability to remove lock directories from some SMB shares, which I reported back in 2003... That seems to be hard to track, because different SMB shares have subtly different access settings. In any case, first try adding "nosmbntsec" to your $CYGWIN, and see if it helps. I also found that, when using Samba from AIX (don't know about Linux/Windows), it helps to add the group that owns the repository to /etc/group, and add the Cygwin user to that group. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/