[Savannah-hackers] Re: emacs/lisp/ChangeLog CVS lock

[Simon Josefsson]

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

> It is happening again!  

FWIW, it never worked for me after the second failure (and I have only
tried to commit to ChangeLog twice).

> Thu, 2002 Jul 11  11:06 UTC:
>
>     Message: [07:04:39] waiting for jas's lock in /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp
>     Message: [07:05:10] waiting for jas's lock in /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp
>     Message: [07:05:40] waiting for jas's lock in /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp
>     Message: [07:06:10] waiting for jas's lock in /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp
>
> I wonder whether it is something in Simon's CVS that is causing the
> problem or something else?
>
> Simon, you reported you are using:
>
>     Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
>
> I have been using the package from Debian Testing, which is a version
> behind, but has not presented me or anyone with problems that I know
> about for my occasional commits.  
>
> If no one finds any obvious bug, might you try reverting from version
> 1.11.2 back to version 1.11.1p1 and seeing whether the problem goes
> away?

I have reverted to 1.10.7-9 which is the latest stable version.  It
will probably be a while until I can try again though (vacation).