Andy Jones wrote: > > >Some how I got confused by your letter. > >1) which type is your CVSROOT, CVSROOT=:ext:machine:/.... , > >CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/.... or CVSROOT=/.... > > CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/.... > > >2) is the box you are checking out on the NFS server or NFS client? > > NFS Server. > > >3) if CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/...., is /.... on machine actually local > >to the machine or an NFS mount? > > It's local to the server. NFS happened to be running on my CVS client, >but it doesn't form any part of our CVS setup.
Andy Jones wrote in his first email: > > Can anybody confirm exactly what happens when you mix CVS and NFS? > > I've just had some *extremely* nasty symptoms when trying to check out a top-level >directory on a client machine: cvs hangs, network hangs, etc.. > > I *think* this is because I had an NFS share for the directory I did the checkout in. >Note, I'm not talking about sharing a sandbox over NFS here - just doing a checkout >in a directory that I forgot was NFS shared. > > The final solution seemed to be to stop NFS *and* stop and restart pserver on > the server machine. Definitely strange problem. I (and the people who use the machines I admin) do checkouts to directories shared through NFS all the time (both on the NFS server and many NFS clients) using :pserver: and :ext: cvs methods. have you looked in /var/[log|adm]/* for any messages that happened around that time? this sounds to me more like a network card or disk controller driver glitching and recovering with the same timing as your problem. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
