Greetings, all Suddenly, this morning, I get a bunch or error messages when I try to cvs update my sandbox.
My screen shows many messages that look like "cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (/srclist.txt) looking for ( /srclist.txt)". But when I look more closely (emacs hexl-mode on file produced by typescript), I see that each occurrence of the file name is preceded by x'58 13 08'. Some other attempts produce error messages with other "funny" characters, and still other attempts have no error messages at all. I hate to suggest that there might be a bug in a the 1.11 branch of cvs, but what could I have done to make this happen? My cvs is 1.11.5, the precompiled binary that came with slackware 9.0, which I installed recently. So far as I know, I have used only standard cvs--sometimes built from source--to maintain this sandbox, so I do not think my hacked versions of cvs have had a chance to screw up *this* sandbox. Besides, I made this happen with a sandbox freshly checked out, too. Transcript of session follows. Thank you, all, for your attention. Terry. =========== transcript of terminal session ====================== Script started on Sun Aug 3 10:15:55 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ccvs$ cvs version Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client/server) Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.6 (client/server) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ccvs$ cat CVS/Root :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ccvs$ cvs -z5 update cvs server: Updating . cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/srclist.txt) looking for ( X/srclist.txt) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mktemp.sh) looking for ( X/mktemp.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mkinstalldirs) looking for ( X/mkinstalldirs) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/missing) looking for ( X/missing) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mdate-sh) looking for ( X/mdate-sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/install-sh) looking for ( X/install-sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/depcomp) looking for ( X/depcomp) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.mak) looking for ( X/cvsnt.mak) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.dsw) looking for ( X/cvsnt.dsw) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.dsp) looking for ( X/cvsnt.dsp) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs.spec.in) looking for ( X/cvs.spec.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs-format.el) looking for ( X/cvs-format.el) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/configure.in) looking for ( X/configure.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/configure) looking for ( X/configure) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.sub) looking for ( XHˆconfig.sub) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.rpath) looking for ( XHˆconfig.rpath) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.h.in) looking for ( XHˆconfig.h.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.guess) looking for ( XHˆconfig.guess) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆcompile) looking for ( XHˆcompile) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆbuild.com) looking for ( XHˆbuild.com) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆaclocal.m4) looking for ( XHˆaclocal.m4) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆTODO) looking for ( XHˆTODO) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆTESTS) looking for ( XHˆTESTS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆREADME.VMS) looking for ( XHˆREADME.VMS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆREADME) looking for ( XHˆREADME) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆPROJECTS) looking for ( XHˆPROJECTS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆNEWS) looking for ( XHˆNEWS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMakefile.in) looking for ( XHˆMakefile.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMakefile.am) looking for ( XHˆMakefile.am) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMINOR-BUGS) looking for ( XHˆMINOR-BUGS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆINSTALL) looking for ( XHˆINSTALL) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆHACKING) looking for ( XHˆHACKING) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆFAQ) looking for ( XHˆFAQ) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆDEVEL-CVS) looking for ( XHˆDEVEL-CVS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆChangeLog.zoo) looking for ( XHˆChangeLog.zoo) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆChangeLog) looking for ( XHˆChangeLog) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆCOPYING.LIB) looking for ( XHˆCOPYING.LIB) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆCOPYING) looking for ( XHˆCOPYING) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆBUGS) looking for ( XHˆBUGS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆAUTHORS) looking for ( XHˆAUTHORS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆABOUT-NLS) looking for ( XHˆABOUT-NLS) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆ.cvsignore) looking for ( XHˆ.cvsignore) cvs server: Updating contrib cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/sccs2rcs.in) looking for ( X/sccs2rcs.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcslock.in) looking for ( X/rcslock.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2sccs.sh) looking for ( X/rcs2sccs.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2log.sh) looking for ( X/rcs2log.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2log.1) looking for ( X/rcs2log.1) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs-to-cvs.sh) looking for ( X/rcs-to-cvs.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/pvcs2rcs.in) looking for ( X/pvcs2rcs.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/newcvsroot.sh) looking for ( X/newcvsroot.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mfpipe.in) looking for ( X/mfpipe.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/log_accum.in) looking for ( X/log_accum.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/log.in) looking for ( X/log.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/intro.doc) looking for ( X/intro.doc) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/dirfns.shar) looking for ( X/dirfns.shar) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/descend.sh) looking for ( X/descend.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/descend.man) looking for ( X/descend.man) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/debug_check_log.sh) looking for ( X/debug_check_log.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvshelp.man) looking for ( X/cvshelp.man) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvscheck.sh) looking for ( X/cvscheck.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvscheck.man) looking for ( X/cvscheck.man) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs_acls.in) looking for ( X/cvs_acls.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs2vendor.sh) looking for ( X/cvs2vendor.sh) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/commit_prep.in) looking for ( X/commit_prep.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cln_hist.in) looking for ( X/cln_hist.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/clmerge.in) looking for ( X/clmerge.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/check_cvs.in) looking for ( X/check_cvs.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/README) looking for ( X/README) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/Makefile.in) looking for ( X/Makefile.in) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/Makefile.am) looking for ( X/Makefile.am) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/ChangeLog) looking for ( X/ChangeLog) cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/.cvsignore) looking for ( X/.cvsignore) cvs server: Updating contrib/elib cvs server: Updating contrib/elib/elib-1.0 cvs server: Updating contrib/pcl-cvs cvs server: Updating contrib/pcl-cvs/elib cvs server: Updating diff cvs server: Updating doc cvs server: Updating emx cvs server: Updating examples cvs server: Updating lib cvs server: Updating m4 cvs server: Updating macintosh cvs server: Updating man cvs server: Updating os2 cvs server: Updating src cvs server: Updating tools cvs server: Updating tools/pcl-cvs cvs server: Updating vms cvs server: Updating windows-NT cvs server: Updating windows-NT/SCC cvs server: Updating www cvs server: Updating zlib cvs server: Updating zlib/amiga cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm386 cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm586 cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm686 cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/delphi cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/delphi2 cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/iostream cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/iostream2 cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/minizip cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/untgz cvs server: Updating zlib/msdos cvs server: Updating zlib/nt cvs server: Updating zlib/os2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ccvs$ exit Script done on Sun Aug 3 10:17:03 2003 _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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