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Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: cvs hangs - any idea ? [UPDATE]
Date:  Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:07:20 -0800
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On 12/10/2009 01:32 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I've just noticed that cvs does work when run as root.
> This shouldn't be necessary since as non-root user I have full
> permission to all involved directories.
>
> If it hangs I have to use  'kill -9'
>

One other thing you can check:  do you have ~/.cvsrc and ~/.cvspass
and does /root have identical files?