Re: Serious cvs tag/rtag issues Please help

[Todd Denniston]

Pranab Panda (pkpanda) wrote, On 10/05/2007 01:17 AM:
>  
> Hi All
>
> In last couple of days our cvs server has gone done few times,

You mean like power outage/hardware fail???
UGH.

> Checkin and checkout work fine, but
> since this afternoon I see errors with cvs tag and rtag commands.
> They both fail with following error
> cvs [rtag aborted]: could not open lock file
> `/auto/cvsroot/repository/Files/,file12,': File exists
>
> I am clueless how to fix this.
> Please help if know whats the issue
> this is very critical!
>
> NOTE: cvs --version 
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
> On Linux 2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Dec 20 18:47:45 EST 2004 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Thanks in advance
> pranab

Suggestions:
1) make a backup[1] of what you have... immediately.
2) if it was power/hardware fail, A) you should get new UPS/hardware, B) 
probably fsck the drive with the repo on it.
3) `locate check_cvs; locate validate_repo` one of these should be on the 
system in a cvs/contrib directory (assuming a nice Linux distro), Otherwise 
you can beat the .in file[2] into shape.
4) `perldoc check_cvs || perldoc validate_repo`
5) use one of check_cvs || validate_repo on your repository to see what other 
problems you have.

6) with the ",filename," files, I _think_ you should see if there are 
usernames on them (if you are using pserver there might not be real ones) and 
if so ask those users to finish their broken commits.
7) if you think it appropriate, make a new backup.
8) ask the group again about help with the new problems if needed.
9) upgrade to a much newer CVS/verify RH has updated for all the security 
problems found since 1.11.2.

Good luck.

[1] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_2.html#SEC24
[2] 
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/ccvs/contrib/validate_repo.pl?root=cvs&content-type=text%2Fplain


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