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From: Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@yoda.pi.musin.de>
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Subject: misc/5900: cvsup problem/corrupt files.
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>Number:         5900
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       cvsup problem/corrupt files.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar  2 10:10:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:

recent 2.2.5-STABLE. "cvsup"ing every night with the follofing supfile:

*default host=cvsup.uk.freebsd.org
*default prefix=/usr/CVSup
*default base=/usr/local/sup/status
*default delete use-rel-suffix compress
*default release=cvs
cvs-all

>Description:

on checking our the source tree with:

cvs -R -q -r checkout -r RELENG_2_2 src

I get errors again and again.

cvs checkout: `/usr/CVSup/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devX100-12/Attic/S,v' does not appear to be a valid rcs file
cvs checkout: `/usr/CVSup/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/devX100-12/Attic/S,v' does not appear to be a valid rcs file
cvs [checkout aborted]: `/usr/CVSup/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/spat.h,v' does not appear to be a valid rcs file

Blowing them away (rm) and re-cvsup'ing cures the problem.

By looking at this files with less, it's obvious that they're broken. They contain lots of 0-bytes. Sometimes even some other junk between the NUL's.

I kept the two above-mentioned files. In case anyone wants them.

>How-To-Repeat:

don't know exactly. But this re-occurs always. If you need more information
(such as dmesg) let me know.

>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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