[Versa] Unable to update Versa test cases

[Chimezie Ogbuji]

I'm running into a problem checking out the test cases for the
development Versa specification from CVS:

[chimezie at Zion Versa]$ cvs update -dP
cvs update: Updating .
cvs update: Updating docs
cvs update: Updating docs/bgen
cvs update: Updating docs/spec
cvs update: Updating docs/xslt
cvs update: Updating src
cvs update: Updating src/web
cvs update: Updating tests
U tests/.cvsignore
U tests/Slicing.rdf
U tests/TestCases.rdf
cvs update: Updating tests/arcs
cvs update: failed to create lock directory for
`/var/local/cvsroot/Versa/tests/arcs'
(/var/local/cvsroot/Versa/tests/arcs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
`/var/local/cvsroot/Versa/tests/arcs'
cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Chimezie