From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 30 21:03:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16989 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA16983 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00653; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Carey Nairn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup error In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970829100104.00683d9c@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Carey Nairn wrote: > We have been running cvsup for quite some time now to maintain the -current > and -stable source trees on our ftp site. Just recently we have been > getting the following error message part way through the update: > > *** > *** runtime error: > *** ASSERT failed > *** file "../src/RCSDelta.m3", line 182 > *** > > abort - core dumped > > This happens with cvsup-14.1.1 and cvsup-15.0 > > any ideas what would cause this ? This is a known problem. One of the repository files was corrupted and throws CVSup for a loop. Figure out which file it is and delete it(sorry I don't remember, check the archives) and retry the sup. Contact jdp@polstra.com, the author, for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo