[Savannah-hackers] Re: Problem with SKS CVS access

[Nic Ferrier]

Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:

> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> said:
> >> 
> >> > "Yaron Minsky" <address@hidden> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> I've been seeing problems with CVS access to Savannah.  Here's what
> >> >> happened when I tried an anonymous login:
> >> >> 
> >> >> dragonfly: tmp $ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/sks
> >> >> login
> >> >> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> >> >> CVS password:
> >> >> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server subversions.gnu.org: EOF
> >> >> dragonfly: tmp $
> >> >> 
> >> >> And here's the log sent to me by a user trying to access the repository:
> >> >> 
> >> >> pks# cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden/cvsroot/sks co sks
> >> >> cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file
> >> >> /cvsroot/sks/CVSROOT/history:
> >> >> Permission denied
> >> >> cvs server: Updating sks
> >> >> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/sks/sks'
> >> >> (/cvsroot/sks/sks/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> >> >> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/sks/sks'
> >> >> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> >> >> pks#
> >> >> 
> >> >> Any ideas?
> >> >
> >> > I'm looking into it... it seems I forgot to make the history file
> >> > writable by anoncvs... 
> >> 
> >> Was it a CVS you imported?
> >> 
> >> When we import a CVS, we do not keep the CVSROOT/, this directory is
> >> usually way too specific to be kept without risking to break lot of
> >> things.
> >> 
> >
> > Yeah... but this one included some stuff that he would need.
> 
> It is always safer to ask them to readd the stuff they need.
> 
> >
> > I still can't login to this with anoncvs... I'm getting some strange
> >authentication errors. Can you have a look for me?
> 
> Hum, I made it the easy way, I added a standard CVSROOT and move the
> original to CVSROOT.orig
> 
> It works, however they'll have to check and probably readd their
> specific stuff.

Suits me.

Over to you Yaron.


Nic