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Subject: Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:12:36 -0700
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From: "Colin Greg Jones" <gjones AT autonomy DOT com>
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  This is an old issue but we figured out where the cause of the problem
was: a Veritas backup agent. I tried setting the backup operations to
manual, but that wasn't enough. It also wasn't enough that the directory
where I was doing my cvs checkout wasn't even selected for backup. I had
to prevent the agent from running by removing it from the Startup menu.

  It turns out this wasn't related to Cygwin at all, but so that the
answer goes with the question I'm posting it here.

> I am running cvs under Cygwin on XP and get the following message when
> checking out:
>
>   cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to
>   CVS/Entries: Permission denied
>
> The checkout stops. If I resume it it seems continue from where it
left
> off, but the problem recurs.
>
> The problem doesn't always occur when finishing checking out the first

> directory. The amount of progress cvs makes before encountering the
> problem varies.
>
> If I manually try to mv the file, it works fine. The output for ls -al
for 
> Entries.Backup is:
>
>   -rw-r--r--  1 gjones mkgroup-l-d 3011 Aug 16 18:09
>   ultra/src/acro/CMap/CVS/Entries.Backup
>
> and for Entries:
>
>   -rw-r--r--  1 gjones mkgroup-l-d 2964 Aug 16 18:09
>   ultra/src/acro/CMap/CVS/Entries
>
> (Yes, I know the mkgroup-l-d group is bogus. I fixed that once and
still 
> had the problem, then I tried reinstalling Cygwin and haven't fixed it

> again.)
>
> Cygwin version: 1.5.17-1, I think.
> CVS version: 1.11.17.
> OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional version 5.1.2600

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