Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001d01c2f08f$b1302ff0$ae9c883e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Birgit Guder" , References: <1048347429.19562.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <004101c2f08c$d80fd880$55adfea9@1und11577470> Subject: Re: V 1.3.22: CVS Checkout from local: No such file or directory Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:25:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Birgit Guder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried to setup cvs server on my windows 98 machine through cygwin. >> However I could not even manage to get the basics of cvs working. I >> create a new repository with: >> >> $ cvs -d/cygdrive/d/data/cvs init >> >> The directory /cygdrive/d/data/cvs exists and contains now a subdirectory >> named CVSROOT. >> When I try to checkout the CVSROOT module , I get an error message "No >> such file or directory". >> >> $ cvs -d/cygdrive/d/data/cvs checkout CVSROOT >> cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT >> cvs checkout: cannot create read lock in repository >> `/cygdrive/d/data/cvs/CVSROOT': No such file or directory >> cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up >> >> >> What is going wrong here? Hmm. WFM, WinXP: max@pomello [~] $ mkdir -p /cygdrive/e/data/cvs max@pomello [~] $ cvs -d/cygdrive/e/data/cvs init max@pomello [~] $ cvs -d/cygdrive/e/data/cvs checkout CVSROOT cvs checkout: Updating CVSROOT U CVSROOT/checkoutlist U CVSROOT/commitinfo U CVSROOT/config U CVSROOT/cvswrappers U CVSROOT/editinfo U CVSROOT/loginfo U CVSROOT/modules U CVSROOT/notify U CVSROOT/rcsinfo U CVSROOT/taginfo U CVSROOT/verifymsg Given the error messages, I guess you should check to see if init actually produced a CVSROOT. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/