Re: Weird bug involving :ext: access

[Adrian Pepper]

> From bug-cvs-bounces+arpepper=math.uwaterloo.ca@gnu.org  Tue Feb 11 20:04:31 
> 2003
> From: Adrian Pepper <arpepper@mfcf.math.uwaterloo.ca>
> To: mdb@cvshome.org
> cc: bug-cvs@gnu.org
> 
> By avoiding /home in the pathname, things seem to work.
> We must have left some stock automounter or something similar running.
> And for some reason cvs attempts to access /home/cvsroot locally.
> One wonders why.
> 
> Yes "cd /home/cvsuser" hangs too.
> 
> % cd /home
> % ls
> 
> does not hang.  But after that, a subsequent:
> 
> % cd xxxxx
> 
> does hang.
> 
> So why does cvs attempt to access the remote path locally?
> 
> So we can fix our users' problem, in any case.

Extra weirdness.

This local check of the remote pathname seems to be done only for
"checkout".

The literal command:

% cvs -t -d :ext:cvsuser@xxxxxx.yyy.net:/home/user checkout something

hangs on our affected systems (where "cd /home/user" hangs)

but:

% cvs -t -d :ext:user@xxxxxx.yyy.net:/home/user update 

goes ahead and aborts because xxxxxx.yyy.net is an unknown host.


Adrian Pepper
Math Faculty Computing Facility
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
arpepper@math.uwaterloo.ca