[cvsnt] Re: Rtag failed on waiting for lock

[Tony Hoyle]

Ian Huynh wrote:

> I am getting an error when trying to rtag 
> 
> cvs rtag: [12:36:21] waiting for Maxc's lock in D:/CVS/CVSREPO/dev/mainLine/Java/com/hubspan/util/file
> 
> we have everyone doing unedit on all their files but still getting this error.  It persists
> even after rebooting.

Presumably you're using file based locks... they have a habit of hanging around
if the server stops unexpectedly (which is why I recommend lockserver).

You need to look in the repository and find the #cvs.lockxxx files, and remove them
(basically everything beginning with #).

Tony