Re: waiting for nobody's lock from Simon Wilkinson on 1999-12-14 (www-amaya@w3.org from October to December 1999)

From: Simon Wilkinson <sxw@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:41:03 GMT
To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, ron@fnal.gov
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <199912140041.AAA27269@tardis.tardis.ed.ac.uk>

> I don't know, but I did give up after half an hour, and copy each file
> manually out of dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Amaya/...
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Ronald Rechenmacher wrote:
> 
>   When checking out the code, how long can one expect to have to
>   wait for "nobody's lock in /sources/public/Amaya/..." ???

If you're having to wait a while, this generally means that someone's
CVS client has died, and the server has left a lock kicking around. 
If its still there, you'll need to ask whoever runs the CVS server
to delete it.

Cheers,

Simon.

Received on Monday, 13 December 1999 19:41:06 UTC