[Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] tla changes --diffs -> PANIC: I/O error after botched commit?

[Roger Flores]

I'm having trouble with tla.  I'm using Johannes Berg's native Win32 
version from around February on Win XP.  How do you get tla to print 
it's version and environment to paste into emails?

Anyways, I did a commit to make patch-1.  The commit seemed to go 
through but got a botched invariant in commit.c at some point. I think 
when trying to do the pristine tree stuff.  My shell lost the error message.

Now I can see the revision but doing a diff fails:

C:\ps\alo\doc\web>tla revisions --summary
base-0
    initial import
patch-1
    Support the tutorial examples.

C:\ps\alo\doc\web>tla changes --diffs
* looking for address@hidden/alo--mainline--0.1--patch-1 
to compare with
* build pristine tree for 
address@hidden/alo--mainline--0.1--patch-1
* from import revision: 
address@hidden/alo--mainline--0.1--base-0
* patching for revision: 
address@hidden/alo--mainline--0.1--patch-1
unable to rename "alo--mainline--0.1--patch-1.patches" to 
"../,,next-patch.1080104924.2496.5" (The system cannot find the file 
specified.)
PANIC: I/O error


I see this and I'm wondering if this is what the error is looking for? 
How do I know if the patch is correct?  Is there some command to apply 
all patches to the base and compare the result?
C:\archives\main\alo\alo--mainline\alo--mainline--0.1\patch-1>ls -l
total 4
  0 Mar 23 18:35 ++revision-lock
453 Mar 23 18:35 alo--mainline--0.1--patch-1.patches.tar.gz
195 Mar 23 18:35 checksum
656 Mar 23 18:35 log

How do I recover from this?  I'd like to get to the point where I know 
my archive is fine (Is there a way to know?) and I can do commits and 
diffs again.

Is there a good way to submit bug reports?  I wish there was a command 
that would dump tla version, host, recent commands, errors reported and 
so on to ease this process.  Basically I'm new and have no skill on what 
information to provide. I must imagine that a simple command should be 
able to do a better job than most new people!

-Roger Flores