Error message below you get when you remove a view failed where the view is corrupted cleartool rmview -tag viewname cleartool: Error: Unable to open file"/view_stg/viewname.vws/.view": No such file or directory. cleartool: Error: /view_stg/viewname.vws isn't a view: No such file or directory cleartool: Error: Unable to remove view "/view_stg/viewname.vws".
Steps to remove the corrupted view:
1. list the view detail to get uuid cleartool lsview -long viewname Tag: viewname Global path: /view_stg/viewname.vws Server host: servername Region: region_ux Active: NO View tag uuid:9e9c4e46.3f5311dc.86cc.00:14:c2:65:50:79 View on host: zmy12vw1 View server access path: /view_stg/viewname.vws View uuid: 9e9c4e46.3f5311dc.86cc.00:14:c2:65:50:79 View owner: you 2. Then try remove the view again with uuid
cleartool rmview -vob /vobname -uuid 9e9c4e46.3f5311dc.86cc.00:14:c2:65:50:79 Can't remove view "/view_stg/viewname.vws" from VOB while view still exists. Remove view /view_stg/viewname.vws" references from VOB anyway? [no] y Removed references to view "9e9c4e46.3f5311dc.86cc.00:14:c2:65:50:79" from VOB "/vobname". 3. Lastly remove the view tag after all the vob references are removed
cleartool rmtag -view viewname
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