Re: [Savannah-users] "cvs co" does not work, it gives unrecognised response messages.

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 04:28:08PM +0200, david wrote:
> Why do I get the following errors when I try an anonymous checkout?
>
> > cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/config -t co  
> config/config.guess
>  -> main: Session ID is ItTPGjI9gGomyVXs
>  -> main loop with CVSROOT=/sources/config
>  -> safe_location( where=(null) )
>  -> open_connection_to_server  
> (:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/config)
>  -> Connecting to cvs.sv.gnu.org(199.232.41.69):2401.
> cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> serve_directory (.)'  
> from cvs server
> cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> dirswitch (.,  
> /sources/config/)' from cvs server
> cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `S -> my_module  
> (config/config.guess, Updating, NULL, NULL)' from cvs server
> cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for readi

Hi,

I works for me.

The first lines are normal.

Your last line says: "cannot open CVS/Entries", which means something
is wrong with the 'CVS' directory in your current directory.

Cheers,

-- 
Sylvain