389493 - CVS checkout fails with "failed to create lock directory" error for toolkit/crashreporter/#cvs.lock

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

A standard CVS checkout of the trunk is failing with the following error:

cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter' (/cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

shaver speculates it might have something to do with work that reed was doing on breakpad.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Raising this to the highest severity level, as it looks to be preventing all clients (including all tinderboxes) from cleanly updating their trees, leaving trees in a partially-updated state when the process fails.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

So, for some reason, some of the directories that were copied as part of bug 371069 did not have g+w set so that the mozsrc group could write to them (they had g+s already, but not g+w). The original directories have the appropriate permissions, so I'm not sure why the copy failed to correctly set some of the permissions for some directories but not for all of them. I have chmod'd all the directories under toolkit/crashreporter/ g+w, so this should be fixed.

CVS copying is all automated, so I find this quite weird. I will work with justdave to see why the script didn't do this correctly so that this doesn't happen again.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Yup, this looks fixed now.  Thanks Reed!