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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:13:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        alpha@freebsd.org
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu
Subject:   Re: alpha/36390: cvsup core dumps on FreeBSD/Alpha 4.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <200203281913.g2SJDp211885@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <15523.27208.853432.144659@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <15523.15336.854733.561407@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203281116160.54193-100000@kindercampus.ab.ca> <15523.27208.853432.144659@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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In article <15523.27208.853432.144659@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> "Nicholas \"Echo|Fox\" Paufler" writes:
>  > > 
>  > > I'm using the non-gui cvsup-16.1d package w/o any problems.  It was
>  > > installed around Sept 1, 2001.
>  > > 
>  > Interesting.
>  > I haven't been able to find a precompiled version of 16.1d. If you still
>  > have the package lying around would I be able to get it from you to
>  > attempt to see if it works on this machine? If it is related to the ezm3
>  > switch this should confirm that this is in fact the problem.
> 
> I've used pkg_tarup to create a package & left it it at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/cvsup-16.1d.tgz

Off the list Nicholas told me a few minutes ago that the date on the
Alpha was set to the year 1912.  That was the cause of the problem (an
overflow in a date calculation).

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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