Baffling cvs problem

[Russ Taylor]

[apologies, the last message I sent was missing some data]

We have a pair of CVS servers, both running Debian 3.0 (Linux), cvs 
version 1.11.1p1. We're using pserver.

On one of the servers, projects with large files are having difficulties: 
the CVS process exits with output like this:
cvs checkout hgia05s01
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.02.02.3.ex9.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.03.03.3.ex08a.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.03.03.3.ex08b.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.05.06.3.ex07.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.06.08.3.ex05.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.01.3.ex02a.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.01.3.ex02b.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.01.3.ex02c.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.01.4.05.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.01.4.10.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.02.4.95.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.08.04.4.72.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.09.02.3.ex02.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.09.02.3.ex04.jpg
U hgia05s01/images/math/hgia/hgia.11.02.ex04.jpg
U hgia05s01/pincodes/placeholder.txt
U hgia05s01/reference/placeholder.txt
U hgia05s01/xml/hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
if any)

As you can see, not a clue from cvs as to why it died. The docs I've been 
scouring for the entire day have been no help whatsoever, as they all 
seem to assume this problem happens only when using rsh.

The other cvs server has no problems at all with the same respository.


With the -t option set, here's what I see:
S-> Create_Admin (xml, hgia05s01/xml, /home/cvsroot/hgia05s01/xml, , , 0, 
0)
S-> unlink_file(xml/CVS/Tag)
 -> ParseInfo(/home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/rcsinfo, hgia05s01/xml, ALL)
S<- Create_Admin
S-> unlink_file(xml/CVS/Entries.Static)
S-> checkout (/home/cvsroot/hgia05s01/xml/hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml,v, 
1.1, -kk, (function))
 -> unlink_file(CVS/Tag)
 -> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)
 -> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)
 -> Create_Admin (hgia05s01/xml, hgia05s01/xml, 
/home/cvsroot/hgia05s01/xml, , , 0, 0)
 -> unlink_file(hgia05s01/xml/CVS/Tag)
 <- Create_Admin
 -> unlink_file(CVS/Tag)
 -> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Static)
S-> server_register(hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml, 1.1, , -kk, , , )
S-> Register(hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml, 1.1, , -kk,  )
U hgia05s01/xml/hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml
 -> rename(.new.hgia05s01,hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml)
 -> Register(hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml, 1.1, Tue Feb 12 01:04:25 2002, 
-kk,  )
S-> unlink_file(CVS/Tag)
S-> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)
S-> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)
S-> Create_Admin (zebra, hgia05s01/zebra, /home/cvsroot/hgia05s01/zebra, 
, , 0, 0)
S-> unlink_file(zebra/CVS/Tag)
 -> ParseInfo(/home/cvsroot/CVSROOT/rcsinfo, hgia05s01/zebra, ALL)
S<- Create_Admin
S-> unlink_file(zebra/CVS/Entries.Static)
S-> checkout (/home/cvsroot/hgia05s01/zebra/foo,v, 1.1, , (function))
S-> server_register(foo, 1.1, , , , , )
S-> Register(foo, 1.1, , ,  )
S-> unlink_file(CVS/Tag)
S-> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)
S-> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)
S-> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)
S-> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
if any)


The confusing part is that the file it bombs out on 
(hgia05s01_exercises.bca.xml) is complete, but it fails to get any files 
from beyond that point. A second cvs checkout will complete the module, 
but that's not except for our end users.

When I examine the other site with inetd -d, all I can glean is that 
cvs-pserver is exiting with exit code 100. Unfortunately, I don't know 
what options (if any) I can use to see what the actual failure in the 
server-side portion of cvs is, it's not logging anything in any log file 
that I can see.

Any insight on this list?

Thanks.  

-- 
Russ Taylor (http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/)

"Oooh, Marge, they have the internet on computers now!" -- Homer Simpson