Error while updating a project.

Question

I get the following error when trying to "update" my eclipse project :

failed due to an internal error (took 0:00.337)
   Error: Problem writing resource 
   '/sspaceex/src/PLWL_implementations/CVS/Template'. 
   A resource already exists on disk 
   '/home/ray/workspace2/sspaceex/src/PLWL_implementations/CVS/Template'.
   Error: A resource already exists on disk 
   '/home/ray/workspace2/sspaceex/src/PLWL_implementations/CVS/Template'.
   ***

Any idea why this error and how to get rid of this?

Answer 1

Eclipse is confused because a file exists that shouldn't be there. Close the project and synchronize again and it should go away.

[EDIT] cvs update: nothing known about '...' means that Eclipse believes that this file is under CVS control and the CVS server says "I have no idea what you're talking about".

Reasons can be that your CVS server got corrupted, somehow, of that the contents of the files CVS/Entries and CVS/Entries.Extra is wrong (Eclipse records what is under CVS control in these files).

I suggest that you delete the project in Eclipse (don't check "Also delete files on disk"), then rename the project on disk to something else, and do a clean checkout.

After the checkout, you can copy any changes you make back (but don't copy the CVS directories or anything inside of them!)

Answer 2

Error: Problem writing resource 
'/sspaceex/src/PLWL_implementations/CVS/Template'.  
A resource already exists on disk 
'/home/ray/workspace2/sspaceex/src/PLWL_implementations/CVS/Template'

Try to close as many active process as possible to check if another application does not "block" that resource.
As Narayan suggests in the comments, if it exists, check if you can delete it manually (outside eclipse) before attempting another refresh in eclipse.

The server reported an error while performing the "cvs update" command:

sspaceex: cvs update: nothing known about `doxygen/htmlclasscontinuous__sets_1_1sequence__transform__coll__graph.md5'

That should mean that the resource is removed from the file system, but not removed from CVS (i.e. on CVS server, an entry exists for this resource).
That is consistent with the failed update which was unable to write in that directory.

Answer 3

I had this same issue. For me, it had to do with the fact that eclipse was out of sync with the file system. I just had to refresh the project (select the project, then hit F5) and the "update" was okay.

Answer 4

I had to manually delete the resource, then refresh the project, then update, and it worked. Note: I have "Build Automatically" turned off, it might be that the refresh will cause an automatic rebuild that will create the resource again, so make sure there is no build done between deleting, refreshing, and updating.