[lug] help with "undocumented" CVS error

[Ken Kinder]

I think I got something like that when I tried to put a really huge file in 
the CVS repository. Like 60 megs. Could that be it?

On Monday 19 November 2001 04:34 pm, qqq1one at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get the source for a project on sourceforge.net.  I'm
> getting an error that I
>
> can't find addressed in the documentation.  Here's what happens:
> > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
>
> (Logging in to anonymous at cvs.winex.sourceforge.net)
> CVS password: (I hit return here as instructed by the project's cvs page
> (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=17631), the command line then hangs
> for about 15 minutes, and then I get...)
> cvs [login aborted]: can not reallocate 671088640 bytes
>
>
> I've asked the project manager about this and he has never seen the error
> before and doesn't know what to do about it.  I don't either at this point.
>  I've already searched through the source code for CVS itself and I don't
> see where a message quite like the one above comes from.  I've also checked
> my available disk space to see if it is a disk space issue on my end and it
> does not appear to be.  I also searched on the web for others who have
> posted about this issue.  There are many hits where someone has had the
> same problem, but no-one has posted a definite solution.  Just responses
> along the lines of there being a problem with the server.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem might be?
>
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