new files ending up with state: dead

[Tiago Antao]

Hi!

I am a CVS user for a few years now and I have stumbled on a problem 
that is more or less driving me mad:

When I add a new file to cvs (or update an old one) it will 
automatically be put in the attic, so if I do

cvs commit cr.c

I will have:
$ ls -l /ncc/cvsroot/ncc/RIP/modules/cr/
total 4
drwxrwxr-x    2 tiago    dbase        4096 Oct 24 10:47 Attic
$ ls -l /ncc/cvsroot/ncc/RIP/modules/cr/Attic/
total 12
-r--r--r--    1 tiago    dbase         404 Oct 24 10:47 Makefile,v
-r--r--r--    1 tiago    dbase        3809 Oct 24 10:46 cr.c,v
-r--r--r--    1 tiago    dbase        1197 Oct 24 10:46 cr.h,v


cvs update doesn't work. But eg cvs diff seems to work.

If I do a log I get a strange state: dead

$ cvs log cr.c

RCS file: /ncc/cvsroot/ncc/RIP/modules/cr/Attic/cr.c,v
Working file: cr.c
head: 1.1
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
        dbupdate_restructure: 1.1.0.2
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2002/10/24 08:46:59;  author: tiago;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file cr.c was initially added on branch dbupdate_restructure.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2002/10/24 08:46:59;  author: tiago;  state: Exp;  lines: +163 -0
CR
=============================================================================

I know that other commiters might have done strange things (which I was 
not able to precesely identify).

I am a bit lost here, thanks in advance for any help.

--
Tiago Antao - RIPE NCC