On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Stefan Sperling wrote: > The ingenious error message was brought to you by Cyrus SASL. > > $ grep -ri 'generic failure' src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 > src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23/include/sasl.h:#define SASL_FAIL -1 /* generic > failure */ > src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23/lib/common.c: case SASL_FAIL: return "generic > failure"; > > SVN calls sasl_errdetail() to obtain an error message from SASL and > "generic failure" is what it gets back. I'll make sure this will get some > prefix in future releases (e.g. "svn: cyrus sasl error: %s" or something). > Thanks for the report.
If using cyrus-sasl, make _sure_ you run the latest version from ports, i.e. cyrus-sasl-2.1.25p0 The one before was broken by yours truly. -- Antoine
