[Gnu-arch-users] Re: More archive corruption!!

[Stig Brautaset]

On Apr 09 2004, Michael wrote:
> "David Snopek" writes:
> 
> > arch_commit: unable to acquire revision lock (could not rename file.)
> >     tree: /home/xevol/prj/xmldoom.cvs
> >     revision:
> > address@hidden/xmldoom--mainline--0.0--patch-5
> >
> > Anyone know why?  Or how I could fix it?  Please, please, I don't want to
> > recreate the archive again today.  It is really tedious to do this and
> > takes away from productive time.
> 
> Check the permissions on the archive -- that error suggests tla was
> unable to move the ++revision-lock directory from patch-4 (maybe
> patch-5?) to the parent directory, xmldoom--mainline--0.0.  If you
> have more than one user committing to the archive, they absolutely
> *must* *all* have umask 002 and have the version directory

I had problems with this at work until I made /usr/local/bin/tla a shell
script that just set the umask to 002 and called the tla binary (from
/usr/local/lib/tla). 

Stig
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