(XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

Greg Jones gjones@verity.com
Wed Aug 17 21:51:00 GMT 2005


P.S. I tried CYGWIN=nontsec and that didn't affect the results.

"Greg Jones" <gjones@verity.com> wrote in message 
news:loom.20050817T030541-966@post.gmane.org...
>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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