pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-25 Thread MChojnacki
Here's some background information on a problem I am encountering: Client: WinCVS 1.3.12 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a Server: cvs 1.11.2 on AIX 4.3.3 Communication Method: pserver On each and every login by a WinCVS client, a core dump (32MB!) is being created in /tmp/cvs-servern (where n is pr

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-25 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Client: WinCVS 1.3.12 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a > Server: cvs 1.11.2 on AIX 4.3.3 > Communication Method: pserver > > On each and every login by a WinCVS client, a core dump (32MB!) is being > created Does the client print any messages from the server? If not, try runni

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-25 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Client: WinCVS 1.3.12 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a > Server: cvs 1.11.2 on AIX 4.3.3 > Communication Method: pserver The first thing to do is to upgrade your server to the current release of CVS (1.11.5) and see if that fixes the problem. -Larry Jones Can I take an ax to

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread MChojnacki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Client: WinCVS 1.3.12 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a >> Server: cvs 1.11.2 on AIX 4.3.3 >> Communication Method: pserver > >The first thing to do is to upgrade your server to the current release >of CVS (1.11.5) and see if that fixe

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have now completed the upgrade. Same result - big core dumps in /tmp. Can you get a traceback from one of the dumps? -Larry Jones Yep, we'd probably be dead by now if it wasn't for Twinkies. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mai

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread MChojnacki
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Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I changed the entry in /etc/inetd.conf to add "-t" to the cvs command line, > but I don't seem to be able to find any trace output anywhere. Where would > it have been written to? Trace output goes to stderr, which for a server is probably nowhere, but it doesn't mat

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread MChojnacki
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Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-26 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > OK. Here's what I get from dbx: > > $ dbx /usr/local/bin/cvs core > Type 'help' for help. > reading symbolic information ... > [using memory image in core] > > Segmentation fault in expand_catname at 0xd01895b0 ($t1) > 0xd01895b0 (expand_catname+0x18) 9421f780

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-27 Thread MChojnacki
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Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-27 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Sorry about that. Here's the first few lines of output for the where > command within dbx. The final 10 lines are repeated ad nauseum after > that... The following patch should avoid the recursive death, maybe then we'll be able to figure out the root problem. Index

Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-27 Thread MChojnacki
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Re: pserver core dumps on WinCVS login

2003-02-27 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Looks like recursive death may have been the whole problem. Now I get no > core dumps, although an empty directory (cvs-servNN, where NN is > the process ID for the server) is left in /tmp (not a big deal)... No, something is going badly wrong somewhere. You