cvs checkout failure messages

[Grant Schoep]

Ok, so I often work from home. Happily all work I do is ran under Linux so I 
am running Fedora at home so I can go. 

Anyways, cvs broke for me. I had been running Fedora 4, and then reinstalled 
Fedora 5 recently, with that said, all cvs broke. I've never seen this error 
before. Any clues from others as to what is happening? By the way, I removed 
my .cvsrc, and we just use rsh for cvs... 

My local CVSROOT is set to
:ext:address@hidden:/home/cvs-repository 

Ok, its not bingo or heck, I just changed that for security reasons. 


Remote CVS root, on above mentioned heck is just the absolute path. i.e. 
/home/cvs-repository 

On both accounts there is NO .cvsrc 

So this is the error(this if after issuing a "cvs co xxx". The lines that 
start with -- are my begin/end messages not from CVS. 

--begin error---
cvs [checkout aborted]: Server sent invalid file size `E cvs server: 
Couldn't open rcsinfo template file 
/usr/local/cvs-repository/CVSROOT/rcsinfo.template: No such file or 
directory'
address@hidden>5% cvs [checkout aborted]: received broken pipe signal
--end error message--- 

So whats this broken pipe. Why does it show /usr/local? Neither system has 
that there. This worked while I was using Fedora 4, but now fails with 
Fedora 5. 

Any ideas? Thanks.