Troels Kofoed Jacobsen writes: > > I have a problem. My /home and some other folders are automounted nfs > shares via autofs. When I try to checkout form any cvs repository in my > homefolder ($HOME/tmp) cvs will randomly tell me smomething like: > cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to /auto/data/myuser/tmp: No > such file or directory > note here that /auto/data is also an automounted nfs share. > My /home is actually also mounted to /auto/home and then symlinked to > /home... > The strange thing is that this happens rather randomly. It will pick a > seemingly random share mounted in /auto, think my user homefolder is > under that and try to checkout to that dir. Sometimes it tries > /auto/home and the checkout succeeds. If i create it says it is missing > (e.g. /auto/data/myuser/tmp) it will checkout into that -- even though > I'm in /home/myuser/tmp when writing the command.
There's something wrong in your OS -- either the automounter or the NFS filesystem code. It's not a CVS problem. (This is why we recommend against having working directories on NFS-mounted filesystems.) -- Larry Jones In short, open revolt and exile is the only hope for change? -- Calvin
