Re: Checkout by date failed: fata signal 11

[Steven Rosenstein]

We're working on a similar problem, and current indications point to CVS's
trying to append ascii headers and trailers onto binary files.  In your email
below, you show the "contents" of a .gif file.  I don't think that normal CVS
file headers and trailers work well in .gif (or any other binary) files. :-)
The file is probably corrupt, and the header may very well be incomplete, which
would cause the problems you are seeing.

--- Steve





Matthew Riechers <address@hidden> on 07/06/2001 09:34:06 AM

To:   Nils9 <address@hidden>
cc:   address@hidden (bcc: Steven Rosenstein/FTCI)
Subject:  Re: Checkout by date failed: fata signal 11




Nils9 wrote:
>
> >
> > Does a plain co (no date) work ok? Is this using a local or remote
> > repository? Does it occur regardless of local/remote access? Does this
> > only happen with this module? More info needed!
> >
> > -Matt
> >
>
> Ok, there is everything:
> RadHat62 running CVS repository, pserver, CVSup. WinCVS 1.2 client.
> This happens only with this module.
>
> I figured that next file it will pull from repository is RAMFind.gif,v and
moved
> it out of the repository, and it worked. The content of the RAMFind.gif,v:
> =====================
> head     ;
> access   ;
> symbols  ;
> locks    ; strict;
> comment  @# @;
> expand   @b@;
>
> desc
> @@
> ======================
>
> and nothing more!  Little strange, I think.

That looks like a corruption problem. I don't know if that is a complete
RCS format, but no data usually implies bad things... If you can't
recover the file via backup, re-add it from a working directory. You'll
lose the history in the latter case.

-Matt

> -Nils Jakobson
> SWH Technology
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > > Could not figure out immediatelly, following error happens:
> > >
> > > ================
> > > cvs checkout -D "2001-6-27 15:20" EE3 (in directory F:\Branch_5_0_1)
> > > cvs server: Updating EE3
> > > .........................
> > > cvs server: Updating EE3/RAMFindJava/com/ramfind
> > > U EE3/RAMFindJava/com/ramfind/FDOSwingTableModel.java
> > > U EE3/RAMFindJava/com/ramfind/RAMCmdLine.java
> > > Terminated with fatal signal 11
> > > *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
> > > =================
> > >
> > > Why this could happen?
> > >
> > > -Nils Jakobson
> > > SWH Technology