[cvsnt] Re: failed to obtain lock

[Tony Hoyle]

Lewis Looks-Twice wrote:
> I was doing a checkout of a lot of big files, and then it said:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: EOF while looking for end of string in RCS file 
> d:\cvsre
> po/dice/dicebot/i2d79.ini,v
> 
That sounds like the file has been truncated... that can't happen in 
normal cvs processes (since it the file updates are done atomically).

Together with things 'suddenly' not working when they did before I'd be 
suspicious of the integrity of the machine.. Running a disk checker is 
strongly advised.

Tony