git-cvsimport problem

Hi,

I think I hit some problem in git-cvsimport or maybe cvsps or maybe (but unprobable) in network communication.

I am trying to do:

git-cvsimport -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.rulez.pl:/home/cvsroot -C lms -i -k -u -m -v lms

and it looks like it hangs in the middle with message:

cvs [rlog aborted]: unexpected '\x0' reading revision number in RCS file /home/cvsroot/lms/templates/noaccess.html,v

and to my understanding does not do anything usefull next. Nothing is imported (there is only nearly empty .git tree). I have to press CTRL-C to stop it.

strace: [pid 30796] read(3, "---------------------\nM revision"..., 4096) = 2068 [pid 30796] read(3, "M date: 2003/06/20 21:07:56; au"..., 4096) = 1448 [pid 30796] read(3, ".19\nM date: 2003/05/26 21:05:47;"..., 4096) = 1448 [pid 30796] read(3, " revision 1.15.2.3\nM date: 2003/"..., 4096) = 1276 [pid 30796] write(2, "cvs [rlog aborted]: unexpected \'"..., 117cvs [rlog aborted]: unexpected '\x0' reading revision number in RCS file /home/cvsroot/lms/templates/noaccess.html,v ) = 117 [pid 30796] read(3, <-- hangs on that read

ps: kangur 30791 30556 3 02:55 pts/4 S+ 0:00 \_ strace -f git-cvsimport -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.rulez.pl:/home/cv kangur 30792 30791 2 02:55 pts/4 S+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/git-cvsimport -d :pserver:cvs@c kangur 30796 30792 18 02:55 pts/4 S+ 0:03 \_ cvsps --norc --cvs-direct -u -A --root :pserver:cvs@c

file descriptors: kangur@beta ~ $ ls -al /proc/30796/fd/ total 5 dr-x------ 2 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 . dr-xr-xr-x 3 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 .. lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 0 -> /dev/pts/4 l-wx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 1 -> pipe:[429154] lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:55 2 -> /dev/pts/4 lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 3 -> socket:[429155] lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 4 -> socket:[429155] kangur@beta ~ $ ls -al /proc/30792/fd/ total 6 dr-x------ 2 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 . dr-xr-xr-x 3 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 .. lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 0 -> /dev/pts/4 lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 1 -> /dev/pts/4 lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:55 2 -> /dev/pts/4 lr-x------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 3 -> /home/kangur/.cvspass lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 4 -> socket:[429124] lr-x------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:57 5 -> pipe:[429154] kangur@beta ~ $ ls -al /proc/30791/fd/ total 3 dr-x------ 2 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 . dr-xr-xr-x 3 kangur users 0 May 30 02:55 .. lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:58 0 -> /dev/pts/4 lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:58 1 -> /dev/pts/4 lrwx------ 1 kangur users 64 May 30 02:55 2 -> /dev/pts/4

netstat: tcp 0 0 beta.polcom.net:50743 netx.waw.pl:cvspserver ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 beta.polcom.net:50744 netx.waw.pl:cvspserver ESTABLISHED

I am using: git version 1.3.3 cvsps version 2.1

What is going on?

Thanks in advance,

Grzegorz Kulewski

On 5/30/06, Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> wrote:

Looks like a cvsps issue. From ps, grab the whole commandine that is used for the cvsps invocation and try to run it manually. cvsps has some debugging flags, I would try adding -x -v to see more output, and perhaps try with --no-cvs-direct

The other thing affecting you is the version of the remote cvs server.

cheers,

martin

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

Are you sure that CVS archive isn't corrupted? That sounds like an internal CVS error to me. Doing a "git cvsimport" will obviously get every single version of every single file, so it will inevitably also hit errors that you migt not hit with a regular "cvs co" (which will only get the current version).

There's bound to be some "fsck for CVS" (since people edit files by hand, and mistakes must happen), but I have no idea.

That said, it's not like we haven't had our share of cvsps issues and other things, so who knows..

Do "git log origin" to see what has been imported. If a cvsimport is broken in the middle, you'll not get any checked-out state, and your HEAD won't point to anything, but the "origin" branch has been created and contains whatever has been imported so far.

			Linus