Re: Protocol error: uncounted data discarded

[Chris Sharpe]

FWIW, my workaround was to determine if the checkout really got
anything (by testing for existence of the directory or file) and
sleeping for ten seconds and trying again.  The retry has never
failed.  Odd.

Checking the exit status of cvs wasn't reliable.  It returned '0'.
I would have expected this error to cause a non-zero exit status.

--Chris

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Chuck Rossi wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:09:27AM -0700, John Minnihan wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > I have seen this too, but not consistently.  For me, the error occurs only
> > near the end of a very large checkout using a 'universe' defining module
> > name.  The error does not exhibit during smaller module checkouts, and as I
> > said - it does not consistently show up even during the large checkouts.
> > 
> > I'm curious what you see as the difference between 'in a buld script' and
> > 'by hand'.
> 
> It's strange.  If I run the cvs operation from my Perl build script,
> I get "Protocol error" torwards the end of the checkout.  If I execute
> the same command, in the same directory from a shell prompt, the checkout
> works fine.
> 
> I'm surprised more people aren't running into this problem.  I'm not doing
> anything special and my repository is not that big.
> 
> Chuckr
> 
> 
> > 
> > address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > Has there been any update on this?  I made the mistake of upgrading
> > > one of my servers and one of my build machines to 1.11.1p1
> > > and now I get this whenever I try a build using a build script:
> > >
> > >  /usr/bin/cvs -q co -r build-1266 tree3
> > > Protocol error: uncounted data discarded
> > >
> > > The client is a Linux RH 6.0 2.2.17 box.
> > > The server is a Linux RH 6.2 2.2.14-5.0smp box.
> > >
> > > Doing the same thing by hand seems to always work.
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > chuckr
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:23:14PM -0400, Chris Sharpe wrote:
> > > > I just upgraded by Solaris (sparc) pserver to cvs 1.11.1p1 and from
> > > > a WinNT command line cvs 1.11 client, I sometimes get the following
> > > > error:
> > > >
> > > >    cvs -d $my_cvsroot -f -r -q -z3 checkout -r $my_tag $my_module
> > > >    Protocol error: uncounted data discarded
> > > >
> > > > The module is about 3000 files in size and I've seen this a couple
> > > > of times when running the checkout command as part of a script.
> > > > Other modules checked out immediately after the failure work fine
> > > > and if I try to checkout this module again, it works fine.
> > > >
> > > > I saw that there was a FIXME comment recently added by Derek in
> > > > server.c that might be related.  Anyone have any insight?  Is this
> > > > error related to 1.11.1p1 or is the timing just a coincidence
> > > > (I never saw this error with 1.11 pserver).
> > > >
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