[xmonad] darcs permissions error?

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I tried pushing a patch to the xmonad-contrib repo today and got the
> following error:
>
>  darcs: takeLock /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in
>  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: atomic_create
>  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in
>  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: permission denied (Permission denied)
>
> Anyone have any ideas about the cause?

Remains from the hack attack of c.h.o. Apparently no one has verified
XMC was not tampered with and has made it writable. This has been
causing trouble for weeks/months.

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