On May 12, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Andreas Schwarz wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a strange problem with a working copy on a NFS mount. Checking > out works fine, but whenever I try to svn stat/info/up a certain > directory, I get the message > svn: Error at entry 6 in entries file for 'cfg': > svn: Bogus date > I traced it down to an empty file in this directory that has a weird > "text last changed" date in the entries file: > 1949-12-07T10:27:14.-840919Z > This date is different (random) each time I make a new checkout on the > NFS mount. But everything is fine when I check out the repository on a > local disk. > > I tried removing, committing and re-adding the offending file, but that > doesn't fix the problem. > > Any ideas what is going on there?
Are you by any chance using NFSv4, and mounting this filesystem from a Solaris NFS server? I encountered the same issue a few months ago. It appears to only happen with zero-length files, because as soon as data is written to the file the timestamp gets fixed. It's actually a Solaris bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6854659 One workaround is to use NFSv3. Another is to put some data in the zero-length file. The fix is in snv_126, which means it should be fixed in the next version of OpenSolaris that comes out (the one that was supposed to be 2010.03, before the Oracle merger delayed everything.) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington