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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 21:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: ron@cts.com
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Peter van Heusden <pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za>
Subject: RE: CVSUP crash
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I had problems cvsuping the same set of patches. I was told by a hackers
notable (unamed) that I should *always* run cvsup as root. Seemed as good a
suggestion as any, so I wiped my archive and started over again. It took an
entire day at 28800 but it worked.

Skepticly yours,

Ron McDaniels
Ron@cts.com


On 06-Sep-97 Peter van Heusden wrote:
>>When trying to update my ports collection with CVSUP, CVSUP crashes with
>the error message:
>
>*** runtime error:
>***    ASSERT failed
>***    file "../src/RCSDelta.m3", line 182
>
>this seems to occur whilst trying to add a delta to
>ports/www/apache-current/patches/patch-aa (log enclosed below).
>
>Has anyone else seen anything like this? Does anyone know what I should do
>to fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
>---START LOG
>Updating collection ports-all/cvs
> Edit ports/www/apache-current/Makefile
>  Add delta 1.1 95.08.28.13.28.45 jkh
>  Add delta 1.2 95.09.19.07.03.17 pst
>  Add delta 1.39 97.08.25.23.02.41 ache

etc., &etc
>ports/www/apache-current/Makefile: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer
>entire file
> Edit ports/www/apache-current/patches/patch-aa
>  Add delta 1.1 95.08.28.13.28.46 jkh
>  Add delta 1.2 95.09.23.18.47.54 pst
>  Add delta 1.19 97.07.14.21.26.18 ache
>  Add delta 1.20 97.08.12.18.20.02 peter
>

etc, &more etc.>
>***
>*** runtime error:
>***    ASSERT failed
>***    file "../src/RCSDelta.m3", line 182
>***
>
>Abort trap (core dumped)
>---END LOG
>--
>Peter van Heusden |    Computers Networks Reds Greens Justice Peace Beer Africa
>pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Support the SAMWU 50 litres campaign!
>

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