Invalid reply from auth server

[Terrence Enger]

Greetings, all

Suddenly, this morning, I get a bunch or error messages when I try to cvs
update my sandbox.

My screen shows many messages that look like "cvs server: Invalid reply
from auth server (/srclist.txt) looking for ( /srclist.txt)".  But when I
look more closely (emacs hexl-mode on file produced by typescript), I see
that each occurrence of the file name is preceded by x'58 13 08'.  Some
other attempts produce error messages with other "funny" characters, and
still other attempts have no error messages at all.

I hate to suggest that there might be a bug in a the 1.11 branch of cvs,
but what could I have done to make this happen?

My cvs is 1.11.5, the precompiled binary that came with slackware 9.0,
which I installed recently.  So far as I know, I have used only standard
cvs--sometimes built from source--to maintain this sandbox, so I do not
think my hacked versions of cvs have had a chance to screw up *this*
sandbox.  Besides, I made this happen with a sandbox freshly checked out, too.

Transcript of session follows.  Thank you, all, for your attention.

Terry.

=========== transcript of terminal session ======================
Script started on Sun Aug  3 10:15:55 2003
address@hidden:~/ccvs$ cvs version
Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.5 (client/server)
Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.6 (client/server)
address@hidden:~/ccvs$ cat CVS/Root
:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs
address@hidden:~/ccvs$ cvs -z5 update
cvs server: Updating .
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/srclist.txt) looking for (
X/srclist.txt)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mktemp.sh) looking for (
X/mktemp.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mkinstalldirs) looking for
( X/mkinstalldirs)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/missing) looking for (
X/missing)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mdate-sh) looking for (
X/mdate-sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/install-sh) looking for (
X/install-sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/depcomp) looking for (
X/depcomp)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.mak) looking for (
X/cvsnt.mak)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.dsw) looking for (
X/cvsnt.dsw)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvsnt.dsp) looking for (
X/cvsnt.dsp)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs.spec.in) looking for (
X/cvs.spec.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs-format.el) looking for
( X/cvs-format.el)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/configure.in) looking for (
X/configure.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/configure) looking for (
X/configure)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.sub) looking for (
XHˆconfig.sub)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.rpath) looking for
( XHˆconfig.rpath)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.h.in) looking for (
XHˆconfig.h.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆconfig.guess) looking for
( XHˆconfig.guess)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆcompile) looking for (
XHˆcompile)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆbuild.com) looking for (
XHˆbuild.com)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆaclocal.m4) looking for (
XHˆaclocal.m4)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆTODO) looking for (
XHˆTODO)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆTESTS) looking for (
XHˆTESTS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆREADME.VMS) looking for (
XHˆREADME.VMS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆREADME) looking for (
XHˆREADME)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆPROJECTS) looking for (
XHˆPROJECTS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆNEWS) looking for (
XHˆNEWS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMakefile.in) looking for (
XHˆMakefile.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMakefile.am) looking for (
XHˆMakefile.am)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆMINOR-BUGS) looking for (
XHˆMINOR-BUGS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆINSTALL) looking for (
XHˆINSTALL)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆHACKING) looking for (
XHˆHACKING)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆFAQ) looking for ( XHˆFAQ)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆDEVEL-CVS) looking for (
XHˆDEVEL-CVS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆChangeLog.zoo) looking for
( XHˆChangeLog.zoo)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆChangeLog) looking for (
XHˆChangeLog)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆCOPYING.LIB) looking for (
XHˆCOPYING.LIB)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆCOPYING) looking for (
XHˆCOPYING)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆBUGS) looking for (
XHˆBUGS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆAUTHORS) looking for (
XHˆAUTHORS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆABOUT-NLS) looking for (
XHˆABOUT-NLS)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (XHˆ.cvsignore) looking for (
XHˆ.cvsignore)
cvs server: Updating contrib
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/sccs2rcs.in) looking for (
X/sccs2rcs.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcslock.in) looking for (
X/rcslock.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2sccs.sh) looking for (
X/rcs2sccs.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2log.sh) looking for (
X/rcs2log.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs2log.1) looking for (
X/rcs2log.1)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/rcs-to-cvs.sh) looking for
( X/rcs-to-cvs.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/pvcs2rcs.in) looking for (
X/pvcs2rcs.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/newcvsroot.sh) looking for
( X/newcvsroot.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/mfpipe.in) looking for (
X/mfpipe.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/log_accum.in) looking for (
X/log_accum.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/log.in) looking for (
X/log.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/intro.doc) looking for (
X/intro.doc)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/dirfns.shar) looking for (
X/dirfns.shar)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/descend.sh) looking for (
X/descend.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/descend.man) looking for (
X/descend.man)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/debug_check_log.sh) looking
for ( X/debug_check_log.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvshelp.man) looking for (
X/cvshelp.man)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvscheck.sh) looking for (
X/cvscheck.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvscheck.man) looking for (
X/cvscheck.man)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs_acls.in) looking for (
X/cvs_acls.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cvs2vendor.sh) looking for
( X/cvs2vendor.sh)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/commit_prep.in) looking for
( X/commit_prep.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/cln_hist.in) looking for (
X/cln_hist.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/clmerge.in) looking for (
X/clmerge.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/check_cvs.in) looking for (
X/check_cvs.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/README) looking for (
X/README)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/Makefile.in) looking for (
X/Makefile.in)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/Makefile.am) looking for (
X/Makefile.am)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/ChangeLog) looking for (
X/ChangeLog)
cvs server: Invalid reply from auth server (X/.cvsignore) looking for (
X/.cvsignore)
cvs server: Updating contrib/elib
cvs server: Updating contrib/elib/elib-1.0
cvs server: Updating contrib/pcl-cvs
cvs server: Updating contrib/pcl-cvs/elib
cvs server: Updating diff
cvs server: Updating doc
cvs server: Updating emx
cvs server: Updating examples
cvs server: Updating lib
cvs server: Updating m4
cvs server: Updating macintosh
cvs server: Updating man
cvs server: Updating os2
cvs server: Updating src
cvs server: Updating tools
cvs server: Updating tools/pcl-cvs
cvs server: Updating vms
cvs server: Updating windows-NT
cvs server: Updating windows-NT/SCC
cvs server: Updating www
cvs server: Updating zlib
cvs server: Updating zlib/amiga
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm386
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm586
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/asm686
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/delphi
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/delphi2
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/iostream
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/iostream2
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/minizip
cvs server: Updating zlib/contrib/untgz
cvs server: Updating zlib/msdos
cvs server: Updating zlib/nt
cvs server: Updating zlib/os2
address@hidden:~/ccvs$ exit
Script done on Sun Aug  3 10:17:03 2003