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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Carey Nairn <Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup error
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830210127.544L-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970829100104.00683d9c@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au>

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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
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