Re: Stuck cvs lock on anoncvs repository

[Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>]

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > I encountered the same problem again. Can you release the lock?
> >
> > Huh.  We should look into why that's happening.  The previous time was
> > right after tagging rc1, and this after tagging final ... seems like
> > there must be some connection.  Does the lockfile show anything about
> > who took the lock?
>
> should be working again now. I'm not sure why this happened but it seems 
> to coincide with the daily "forced" push of the repo just after midnight.
> I suspect that we are somehow rsyncing too much state to anoncvs 
> (especially the #cvs-lock directory) and we are simply missing a 
> --exclude '#cvs.*' flag for rsync.

FWIW I modified the push script on cvs-master to exclude any lock 
(directories) that might intermediatly show up during the run.
I'm not sure why this only started to happen now - but I suspect it 
correlates with the fact that tagging seems to take a while and the 
particular time marc did the tagging so that collided with the forced push.


Stefan