(From Arne Schirmacher, initially from JRA-3307):

I'm running JIRA Enterprise 2.6.1.
The cvs service runs without exceptions, but the Version Control section updates only once right after JIRA startup. All other changes made to the cvs repository after JIRA has started are not imported.

2004-03-29 09:49:02,730 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner] Running Service [Container: com.atlassian.jira.service.services.vcs.VcsService null delay
[60000ms]]
2004-03-29 09:49:02,730 DEBUG [service.services.vcs.VcsService] VcsService service running...
2004-03-29 09:49:02,736 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects defined for repository 'test'.
2004-03-29 09:49:02,737 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects are associated with repository 'test' - not updating.
2004-03-29 09:49:02,743 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects defined for repository 'cvs-1.11.3'.
2004-03-29 09:49:02,743 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects are associated with repository 'cvs-1.11.3' - not updating.
2004-03-29 09:49:02,753 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] Updating repository 'cvs-1.12.5'...
2004-03-29 09:49:02,858 INFO [jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl] Starting cvs update.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,080 INFO [jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl] Finished cvs update.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,081 INFO [jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl] Starting log
2004-03-29 09:49:03,421 INFO [jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl] Finished log.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,421 DEBUG [jira.vcs.cvsimpl.CvsRepositoryUtilImpl] Cvs log took 340ms
2004-03-29 09:49:03,425 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] Finished updating repository 'cvs-1.12.5'.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,431 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects defined for repository 'cvs'.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,432 DEBUG [atlassian.jira.vcs.DefaultRepositoryManager] No projects are associated with repository 'cvs' - not updating.
2004-03-29 09:49:03,432 DEBUG [service.services.vcs.VcsService] VcsService service finished.