On lundi, sep 30, 2002, at 10:56 Europe/Paris, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
> Martin :
>
>> What are the "error messages above"? You didn't show them.
>
> Come on ! There'no noe !
>
> CVS always says to look at the "error messages above". It's a kind of
> mantra. However, I never, ever saw an error message from cvs. Just
> aborts :-)
Just like the compiler or the linker, cvs does not announce its error
messages with the word "error". In all cases I have seen reported here
with the same symptoms you mentioned, there was a message from cvs
about a "conflict" and/or an advice about moving some file "out of the
way". That's as explicit as cvs will ever get. From the cvs man page,
paragraph on the "update command":
update [-AdflPpQqR] [-d] [-r tag|-D date] files...
[]
update keeps you informed of its progress by print-
ing a line for each file, prefaced with one of the
characters `U A R M C ?' to indicate the status of
the file:
[]
C file A conflict was detected while trying to merge
your changes to file with changes from the
source repository. file (the copy in your work-
ing directory) is now the result of merging the
two versions; an unmodified copy of your file is
also in your working directory, with the name
`.#file.version', where version is the revision
that your modified file started from. (Note
that some systems automatically purge files that
begin with `.#' if they have not been accessed
for a few days. If you intend to keep a copy of
your original file, it is a very good idea to
rename it.)
> Unless "### execution of su failed, exit code 1" is supposed to be an
> useful error message....
No, this a consequence of the true error. This is fink speaking and
telling that the command 'su', which is the command that started the
cvs update and detects that cvs ends with an error, came back with an
error flag set.
This latter message can appear also when 'su' fails for some other
reason, missing privileges, wrong password etc.
--
Martin
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