[lug] help with "undocumented" CVS error

[Nate Duehr]

Debian's boot-floppies/installer crew was seeing similar stuff months
ago with some binaries that had been checked in (non-source) -- are
there any binary files in the CVS tree for the project you're working
on?

They ended up packaging the binaries needed into .deb format and using
those PLUS the CVS tree to build from.  I looked but I've deleted the
thread that stated why it appeared to be happening... but it was
defnitely a CVS bug.

Nate 

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:34:41PM -0800, qqq1one @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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