[cvsnt] Lockserver problem (cvslockd)

[Tony Hoyle]

MusiMeli wrote:
> # LockServer    Default lock server location.  Can be overridden by
> #     LockServer directive in individual repositories.
> LockServer=NewServer:2402

Comment this out. It is almost never required to have the lockserver on 
a separate server to the main cvsnt server.

> Then I found an "outstanding bug" for Debian: "cvsnt: cvslockd crashes at 
> startup":

 From the comments they had an invalid network configuration (their 
hostname->ip address lookup returned 127.0.0.1, so it was impossible for 
software to find out the IP address of the machine).  2382 used to 
detect this and display the error but still fall over later.. that was 
fixed a while back.

 > cvs init: connect to NewServer(NewServer):2402 failed: Connection refused

Probably 'NewServer' isn't running a lockserver.  As mentioned before, 
don't try to put lockserver on a different machine like that unless you 
have an already working server to start with - there are too many things 
that need configuring first - eg. lockserver itself won't listen on 
public IPs by default.   Multi-machine servers although possible (with a 
SAN) aren't something that is very common.

cvs.cvsnt.org runs on a 64bit debian box btw. so that configuration 
probably has more testing than most.

Tony