[rancid] rancid/cvs stuck on providing diffs from config a week old with latest hourly config

[james machado]

2011/9/27 Drikus Brits <Drikus.Brits at vodacom.co.za>:
> Hi All,
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> I recently added about 5 – 10 devices, and also added a statement into the
> “rancid” file to filter a specific line out of the config.
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> Since then Rancid , or more CVS I believe seems to be stuck on comparing
> configs from a week ago to the latest hourly config.
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last time this happened to me it was a locking issue with CVS/SVN.  It
had not released the lock and could not updated the files. stop your
rancid and CVS/SVN then find the lock files for CVS/SVN and clear
those out then restart the apps again.

james