Re: cvs[checkout aborted]: invalid change text problem

[Derek R. Price]

I just glanced through your RCS file and it looks like perhaps some revisions
were deleted improperly.  There used to be bugs in the 'cvs admin -o' command
which may have caused something like this, or someone may have attempted to edit
the file by hand and caused the trouble.

Unfortunately the best advice I can give you is to restore the affected files
from backup, assuming you have one, and then merge whatever recent work you can
salvage back into the files.  If that seems like too much trouble, you might
have to live with things as they are.  You might be able to stick some of the
missing revisions back into the current archives but you'd still need a backup
to work form and you'd probably have to mess directly with the RCS files -
probably more trouble than it's worth.

The only recent 'admin -o' bug I know about was fixed between 1.10.5 & 1.10.6.
You might consider upgrading to CVS 1.11.

Derek
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Re: Graphics

A picture is worth 10k words, but only if the words describe the
picture.  Very few arbitrary sets of 10k words can be adequately
replaced with a picture.

"address@hidden" wrote:

> Dear info-cvs,
> we have a problem with cvs 1.10.3
> (repository on afs, all Linux client
> for cvs ci, cvs up etc).
>
> The problem described below manifests
> itself in the same way also on HP-UX clients.
>
> The problem appears when we try to checkout
> a file within some time interval (plain cvs co works...).
> Going back in time, there are intervals where the
> checkout is impossible and the error message
> is "invalid change text" (see details in the following).
> In the example provided, the files
> has two revisions 1.1 and 1.2. Everything is
> OK before the date corresponding to
> 1.1 and after the one corresponding to
> revision 1.2
>
> We would like to know:
> 0) Is the corruption localised to few
>    files or the full repository is in danger?
>    check_cvs.pl is OK.
> 1) explanation of the problem
> 2) origin
> 3) fixes (there is a pair of files giving
>    this problem)
>
> Is there out there somebody who could help?
>
> Thanx, Massimo
>
> -----------------------------
>
> ************ Doing cvs co with the date specification -D we get:
>
> cvs [checkout aborted]: invalid change text in
> /afs/cern.ch/compass/repository/coral/src/evdb/noperiod.2000.BOOT,v
>
> ************ The cvs log output for coral/src/evdb/noperiod.2000.BOOT is
> coral/src/evdb/noperiod.2000.BOOT
>
> RCS file:
> /afs/cern.ch/compass/repository/coral/src/evdb/noperiod.2000.BOOT,v
> Working file: coral/src/evdb/noperiod.2000.BOOT
> head: 1.2
> branch:
> locks: strict
> access list:
> symbolic names:
>         beam_SiFi_Tracking: 1.2
>         beam_SiFi_Decoding: 1.2
>         before-new-decoding: 1.2
>         Traffic-1-41: 1.2
>         Release-0-3-1: 1.1
>         BeforeAutoConfigure: 1.1
>         Traffic-1-37: 1.1
>         Prerelease-0-3-0: 1.1
>         Easter2000: 1.1
>         Valery_decoding_001: 1.1
>         Prerelease_0_2_09: 1.1
>         Before_rel_0_2_09: 1.1
>         release-1-1: 1.1
> keyword substitution: kv
> total revisions: 2;     selected revisions: 2
> description:
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.2
> date: 2000/08/18 14:41:13;  author: laman;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -7
> Aug2000
> New run object
> Tested against the first consistent DATE files from Compass
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.1
> date: 2000/03/29 16:23:29;  author: laman;  state: Exp;
> *** empty log message ***
> =============================================================================
>
> ************** And this is the ,v file from the repository
>
> cat  /afs/cern.ch/compass/repository/coral/src/evdb/noperiod.20
> 00.BOOT,v
> head    1.2;
> access;
> symbols
>         beam_SiFi_Tracking:1.2
>         beam_SiFi_Decoding:1.2
>         before-new-decoding:1.2
>         Traffic-1-41:1.2
>         Release-0-3-1:1.1
>         BeforeAutoConfigure:1.1
>         Traffic-1-37:1.1
>         Prerelease-0-3-0:1.1
>         Easter2000:1.1
>         Valery_decoding_001:1.1
>         Prerelease_0_2_09:1.1
>         Before_rel_0_2_09:1.1
>         release-1-1:1.1;
> locks; strict;
> comment @# @;
>
> 1.2
> date    2000.08.18.14.41.13;    author laman;   state Exp;
> branches;
> next    1.1;
>
> 1.1
> date    2000.03.29.16.23.29;    author laman;   state Exp;
> branches;
> next    ;
>
> desc
> @@
>
> 1.2
> log
> @Aug2000
> New run object
> Tested against the first consistent DATE files from Compass
> @
> text
> @@
>
> 1.1
> log
> @*** empty log message ***
> @
> text
> @d1 1
> a1 1
> ooFDNumber=5605
> d3 6
> a8 6
> ooPageSize=4096
> ooLockServerName=lockcomp
> ooFDDBHost=lockcomp
> ooFDDBFileName=/usr/objy/noperiod.2000/noperiod.2000.FDB
> ooJNLHost=lockcomp
> ooJNLPath=/usr/objy/noperiod.2000/journal
> @
>
> --
>
>  Massimo Lamanna
>  CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
>  Information Technology Division
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