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Re: stale cvs lock in src/gdb
On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
>
>> looks like there is a stale lock:
>>
>> …
>> cvs commit: [12:39:10] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:39:40] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:40:10] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:40:40] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:41:10] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:41:40] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:42:10] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:42:40] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:43:10] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:43:41] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:44:11] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:44:41] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>> cvs commit: [12:45:12] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvs/src/src/gdb
>
> Stale CVS locks are rare, because the locks include a PID, and if the
> PID does not exist the lock is automatically broken. I suspect this was
> an anonymous CVS checkout over a slow network link. In any case I don't
> see any lock there now. Let us know if you are still having trouble.
Thanks. It has been fixed. Maybe it was a very very slow checkout as it was stale for several hours.
Tristan.