Problem with cvs commit failed in cvs-freebsd setup [REVISED]

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-03-07 16:38, Jose Liang <jliang at so-net.net.tw> wrote:
>> Sorry for not replying to the original post.  I left it in my queue of
>> incoming "to-be-replied" messages, and then got dragged into other
>> things.
>
> It's fine, thanks help again!
>
>>
>> Can you show me the output of:
>>
>>     $ ls -ld $CVSROOT/*
>
> $ ls -ld $CVSROOT/*
> ls: :local:/home/cvs/cvsroot/*: No such file or directory

Because "$CVSROOT" in your environment is not set correctly.  You have
obviously included the string ``:local:'' somewhere in there, which is
wrong.

> Why No such file or directory?
> But there are files and directories in $CVSROOT (/home/cvs/cvsroot):

Your mailer has wrapped the text, rendering it almost useless, but
that's ok in this case.  Please try to find out if there's an option to
turn off this wrapping for future posts though.

> $ls -ld /home/cvs/cvsroot/*
> drwxrwxr-x  4 cvs   cvs  1536 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/
> drwxrwxr-x  2 jose  cvs   512 Mar  1 05:10 /home/cvs/cvsroot/fifa/
> $ls -ld /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/*
> drwxrwxr-x  2 cvs   cvs    512 Feb 12 23:39 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/Emptydir/
> -r--r--r--  1 jose  cvs    444 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/avail
> -r--r--r--  1 jose  cvs    637 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/avail,v
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 jose  cvs   9118 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/cfg.pm*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 jose  cvs   9327 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/cfg.pm,v*
> -r--r--r--  1 jose  cvs   2186 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/cfg_local.pm
> -r--r--r--  1 jose  cvs   2385 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/cfg_local.pm,v
> -r--r--r--  1 jose  cvs    959 Mar  6 17:27 /home/cvs/cvsroot/CVSROOT/checkoutlist
[...]

This list looks ok.  I think your only problem is the wrong value of
$CVSROOT.  Try setting CVSROOT in your environment to include *ONLY* the
path to the CVS root directory.

For /bin/sh or GNU bash, this would be:

    $ export CVSROOT='/home/cvs/cvsroot'

For csh(1) the equivalent is:

    % setenv CVSROOT /home/cvs/cvsroot

If this works fine, then make sure you also update any shell startup
files that include the old CVSROOT value, and you're set to go :)