'How do I solve CVS error: cannot change permissions on temporary directory C:\CVS\cvstmp
Trying to "share project" in CVS from Eclipse, to upload a newly created Java project to the CVS repository it failed with the message:
«: cvs [server aborted]: cannot change permissions on temporary directory C:\CVS\cvstmp/cvs-serv:3072: Permission denied»
but no C:\CVS exists nor any CVS* environment variable or section of the PATH.
How do I solve the error and upload my new java project to the CVS repository?
Solution 1:[1]
Retry
There is not much about this in general. There are a lot of pages about the "permission denied", but as you add "CVS" and "C:\CVS" it grows thinner.
As a matter of fact, I only found this page that describes the problem, for a Red-Hat Linux installation, and goes on telling that it is a non-reproducible situation; and ends with the advice:
«If you experience this error while using CVS, retrying the operation which produced it should work fine.»
So I did: at the error message from Eclipse CVS plugin, I clicked OK, which returned me to the Share Project dialog and clicked "Next" again, and this time it succeeded.
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | manuelvigarcia |