[Monotone-devel] Monotone bug in windows xp...

[James Oliver Smith, Jr]

Hi...

In the process of issuing a checkout from a monotone repository on 
another server (Debian Linux) on my Windows XP system I recieved the 
following error, which occurs consistently, upon successive retries. The 
checkout seems to be working find until this error is encountered. All 
of the code checked out up to that point seems to be fine:
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C:\www\cgi-bin>monotone checkout -d c:/umn/bass/source.db --branch 
edu.umn.cbs.bass
monotone: fatal: std::exception: boost::filesystem::create_directories: 
"cgi\class": path exists and is not a directory
monotone: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
monotone: please send this error message, the output of 'monotone 
--full-version',
monotone: and a description of what you were doing to 
address@hidden

monotone: discarding debug log (maybe you want --debug or --dump?)

C:\www\cgi-bin>
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Output of the 'full-version' directive to monotone:
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C:\www\cgi-bin>monotone --full-version
monotone 0.22 (base revision: 28058ae3e850229a5d8fae65415cbbf82b435377)
Running on: Windows NT/2000/XP (5.1, build 2600) on ia32 (level 6, rev 3336)
Changes since base revision:

new_manifest [10362ee0d4a3dc70c67ab38ec21db76d3d231320]

old_revision [28058ae3e850229a5d8fae65415cbbf82b435377]
old_manifest [10362ee0d4a3dc70c67ab38ec21db76d3d231320]


 Generated from data cached in the distribution;
 further changes may have been made.

 Generated from data cached in the distribution;
 further changes may have been made.

C:\www\cgi-bin>
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A monotone 'pull' was accomplished without an error, previous to this 
attempt to 'checkout' the code from one of the branches, the branch 
(edu.umn.cbs.bass) that I am working on.

For what it is worth, the 'ssh' connection with the Debian monotone 
server was established with the following command:
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C:\Documents and Settings\Jim Smith>plink -N -L 5253:localhost:5253 
atp.cbs.umn.
edu
login as: josjr
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
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Let me know if there is further diagnostic data that I can provide. 
Since it is reproducible I should have no difficulty extracting more 
data relating to this, if needed.

We are trying to move towards Monotone from CVS, using it across 
Unix(Solaris, Debian), OS-X and Windows. This error will prevent us from 
making this transition if we cannot overcome this problem. Any help will 
be appreciated.

Jim
address@hidden
Asstant Directory of Information Technology
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota
1.612.625.6208