[cvsnt] 'state' not where expected

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Apr 2 19:48:54 BST 2003


P. Dwayne Miller wrote:

> Today, We received the following error:
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: unable to parse d:/cvs/blackbar.cfm,v; `state' not
> in the expected place
> 
> Rebooted the system, same error comes back during commit.  Any hints as
> to what might be going on?
> 
That sounds like there's something wrong with the file.  Look at it in
wordpad... there should be lots of lines near the top that look like:

date     2003.03.30.16.51.09;  author tmh;  state Exp;

One of those presumably has something odd in it.

What version of server is this?

Tony



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