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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: alpha/36390: cvsup core dumps on FreeBSD/Alpha 4.5-RELEASE
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In article <15523.27208.853432.144659@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> "Nicholas \"Echo|Fox\" Paufler" writes:
>  > > 
>  > > I'm using the non-gui cvsup-16.1d package w/o any problems.  It was
>  > > installed around Sept 1, 2001.
>  > > 
>  > Interesting.
>  > I haven't been able to find a precompiled version of 16.1d. If you still
>  > have the package lying around would I be able to get it from you to
>  > attempt to see if it works on this machine? If it is related to the ezm3
>  > switch this should confirm that this is in fact the problem.
> 
> I've used pkg_tarup to create a package & left it it at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/cvsup-16.1d.tgz

Off the list Nicholas told me a few minutes ago that the date on the
Alpha was set to the year 1912.  That was the cause of the problem (an
overflow in a date calculation).

John
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