[Savannah-help-public] cvs update: (CVS/Repository missing)

[stelios]

Hello admin team,

cvs updates are partial and I cannot make commits to the fsfe project
 I get some messages when I try 

$ cvs update -d

cvs update: ignoring events/2009 (CVS/Repository missing)

? documents/reports/.directory
? news/2008/.directory
? news/2009/news-20090120-01.en.

xhtml_en
? news/2009/news-20090120-01.en.xml_en
cvs update: Updating .
cvs update: Updating CVS.adm
cvs update: Updating about
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cvs update: cannot open CVS/Tag: Permission denied
cvs update: in directory events/2009:
cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: Permission denied
cvs [update aborted]: cannot open CVS/Entries.Log: Permission denied

$ cvs add event-20090919-01.el.xml
cvs add: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
cvs [add aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.

$ cvs -t -d:<user>@cvs.savannah.gnu.org/cvsroot/<project> co <project>

cvs checkout: No closing `:' on method in CVSROOT.
cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `:<user>@cvs.savannah.gnu.org/cvsroot/fsfe'.

thank you,
Stelios