Re: Unable to update

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Otto Maddox <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried asking this on savannah-users, but didn't get anywhere, so I
> thought this might be a good place.
> 
> I'm unable to update sources from CVS for any savannah-based project.
> Checking out is fine, though.
> 
> For example, for emacs:
> 
> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/emacs co emacs
> [works fine]
> $ cd emacs
> $ cvs -t update -d -P
>  -> main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/emacs
>  -> Connecting to cvs.savannah.gnu.org(199.232.41.69):2401
> [and then it takes ages to time out]
> 
> This happens from all machines on the network which I'm on, but it's
> OK from my computer at home.  Also, it only seems to happen with
> savannah-based projects, e.g., cvs update is fine for projects hosted
> at sourceforge.

Very strange.

> Not sure whether it's a CVS problem or something like a misconfigured
> firewall.  In either case, I'm a bit inexperienced in this sort of
> thing, so please could somebody offer some advice on how to diagnose
> the problem?

It looks like you are not sending the right stuff for a pserver login.
You might try setting the environment variable CVS_CLIENT_LOG to the
prefix of a pathname into which a ${CVS_CLIENT_LOG}.in and
${CVS_CLIENT_LOG}.out files will be written which will have the record
of what was sent by CVS over the port 2401 connection.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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