[cvsnt] Re: cvs [server aborted]: cannot rename file 2.0.58b

[Bryan Kuhn]

One of my guys just got this error checking in a binary file and I'm running 58a.

Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 11:49:57 AM, James Cosh wrote:
> I had the same problem.

> There is no antivirus software on the server.

> For every file I tried to commit, the server would respond with the 
> Permission Denied message.

> There are some curiousities, however. CVS would permit the adding of
> exactly one tag to each file. Any further attempts to add or delete tags
> would bring the same 'cannot rename.... Permission denied' message. 
> However, if I were to manually set the repository ',v' file on the 
> server to read/write, exactly one commit (or tag change) would be 
> successful. After that change, the repository file would again be read
> only, and any further mutating CVS commands would fail with the same
> error message.

> The 'solution' was to remove 2.0.58b and install 2.0.58a. It's working
> fine now.

> Jim

> Tony Hoyle wrote:
>> Joseph Kingry wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone else encountered this? I upgraded our Windows 2000 server
>>> from 2.0.58a to 2.0.58b and started getting the following upon a
>>> commit:
>>>
>>> Checking in FILE.NAME;
>>> cvs [server aborted]: cannot rename file /PATH/,FILE.NAME, to
>>> /PATH/,FILE.NAME,: Permission denied
>> 
>> 
>> That code hasn't changed at all between 2.0.58a and 2.0.58b.
>> 
>> It's pretty much always caused by Norton on the server scanning the
>> files and locking them.  You need to make sure Norton is not affecting
>> the repository, or you'll get this kind of thing randomly on pretty much
>> any version of CVS (and a lot of other programs too).
>> 
>> Tony

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