[lug] help with "undocumented" CVS error

[Jeff]

Is this an ISO image?  If so, it could be that you do not have enough
room on your disk to store that much stuff or that CVS doesn't have
enough temp storage for the request.  This assuming that CVS stores
their stuff temporarily...  Just a thought.

Jeff

"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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