Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 08:40:39 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup glitch Message-ID: <199711181640.IAA17710@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199711180804.JAA18647@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199711180804.JAA18647@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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In article <199711180804.JAA18647@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> wrote: > > Running a cvsup gave me a mysterious error: > > TreeList failed: Error in "/usr/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:.": 19769: Invalid modTime That means that your "checkouts.cvs:." file is corrupted. It might be a good idea to run fsck soon. :-) > # cd /usr/sup/src-all > # ls -l > total 2800 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 819244 Nov 11 04:37 #cvs.cvsup-27653.0 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 2020310 Nov 18 08:53 checkouts.cvs:. > # > > Well, I removed both files. Probably not a good idea. The one beginning with "#" is a temporary file, so don't worry about it. Since the "checkouts.cvs:." file was corrupted, you didn't have much choice but to delete it. You might possibly have fixed it with an editor, but that's not always possible if the file is badly corrupted. > Now cvsup is taking a deep breath for a while. I suspect it's > fetching everything now. It's checksumming your files in order to figure out which versions you have. It won't fetch everything again. > Anyway, what should I do in case this happens again? Next time, please save the corrupted file so that I can look at it. Every time I have seen this problem, it's been caused by a disk error or an untimely system crash or possibly a kernel bug. The corrupted files invariably have a big chunk of some completely unrelated file splatted into them, at an offset that's a multiple of the sector size. By the way, is your CVSup the latest version (15.2)? The text of the error message makes me suspect that you're running a version that's pretty old. If so, please consider upgrading. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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