At 05:32 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, James Mastros wrote:
>Hey all.  This probably isn't the right place for this, but:
>cvs server: Updating .
>cvs server: failed to create lock directory for /home/perlcvs'
>(/home/perlcvs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
>cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository /home/perlcvs'
>cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
>Sombody want to fix that?  Presumably, it's a dead lockfile that needs to be
>deleted.

That's generally a sign you've done something like:

   cvs update -dP

when you're not in the parrot source directory but, rather, it's parent. 
(Been there. Done that. A lot... :)

                                        Dan

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