RE: "Cannot rename file" error

[Ennis, Tony]

Oy! You caught me. I am not the admin of the cvs server and I assumed
*cough* that it was a Windows box. After reading your response, I decided to
check my facts... it's a Solaris box. We use Windows server at my
installation but the cvs box is elsewhere. They use Suns there.

I don't know how large the entire repository is, but my module is just under
1G.  Is this large?

I have the latest rev of CVSNT.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Denniston [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:02 AM
To: Ennis, Tony
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: "Cannot rename file" error


"Ennis, Tony" wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am on Win2000, latest rev of cvsnt, using pserver to the
repository
> on a Windows box.
> 

With this said, you will likely get better answers on the cvsnt mailing
list.

http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt



> When I check projects out, I am getting this error intermittantly:
> 
> cvs checkout: Updating svs/apacherelease
> U svs/apacherelease/apache_1.3.33.tar.gz
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file _new_apache_1.3.33.tar.gz to
> apache_1
> .3.33.tar.gz: Bad address
> 
> I have inherited a dubiously constructed repository, but for now... it is
> what it is.  I just need to get it working.  My checkouts fail one time in
4
> perhaps, always on a different file each time, but *i think* it happens
more
> often on large binaries.  I am checking the project out into an empty
> directory, if that matters.
> 
> This wasn't happening previously, and then BAM! it just started, with a
> vengeance.
> 
> Any ideas?

Between it working and now not working, have you updated to a newer cvsnt?
The only similar experience I have ever had with regular cvs is when at
1.11.1p1->1.11.2 they changed to memmaping files and my solaris box had a
broken memmap implementation, and then it only happened on the biggest of
repositories with them machine under load.

-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter