[cvsnt] Repository corruption

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:35:13 +0200, "Sebastian Wangnick"
<sebastian.home at wangnick.de> wrote:

>Dear CVSNT folks,
>
>please find at http://sebastian.wangnick.de/titeltext.zip one of the
>seemingly corrupt repository files. The error message occurs *only* when
>trying to access (or to compare with) version 1.1 of the file. This is also
>why I did't detect the corruption earlier; in all those strange files I
>detected, the more recent versions are perfectly accessible. Actually, I
>detected the issue only today because (a very thin voice starting here) I
>wanted to give Subversion a look and thus tried to convert the repository to
>Subversion format to have a good size sample. This conversion process threw
>the error messages at me, which I then confirmed by using TortoiseCVS to
>access the respective versions.

I downloaded the file and copied it into one module in my test server.
Then I ran a cvs update on that module in a sandbox expecting the file
to appear, but it didn't...
So I did a trace on the update and the part of the trace dealing with
this file looks as follows:

23:49:32: S ->
map_filename(C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY,titeltext.gif)
23:49:32: S ->
map_repository(C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY/titeltext.gif)
23:49:32: S -> lookup_module2(ModuleYY/titeltext.gif,11)
23:49:32: S -> RCS_parse(titeltext.gif,C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY)
23:49:32: S ->
rcsbuf_open(C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY/titeltext.gif,v)
23:49:32: S ->
normalize_path(C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY/titeltext.gif,v)
23:49:32: S -> ...returns
C:/DATA/CVSREPO/Bosse/ModuleYY/titeltext.gif,v
23:49:32: S -> rcsbuf_fill(009AF928,00000000,00000000,00000000)
23:49:32: S -> rcsbuf_fill: expanded to 8192
23:49:32: S -> Classify_File (titeltext.gif)
23:49:32: S -> RCS_getversion((null),(null),1)
23:49:32: S -> wnt_stat(titeltext.gif)
23:49:32: S -> _statcore(00000000,titeltext.gif)
23:49:32: S -> vn_rcs=1.3
23:49:32: S -> fileattr_write()
23:49:32: S -> fileattr_free()
Then it proceeds to another file...

Can't make out much of it myself.

Then I ran a cvs log on the file even though it is not in my sandbox:

cvs log titeltext.gif

***** CVS exited normally with code 0 *****


RCS file: /korvKiosk/ModuleYY/titeltext.gif,v
Working file: titeltext.gif
head: 1.3
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
	vor_umstellung_compframe: 1.2
	noframes: 1.2.0.2
keyword substitution: b
total revisions: 3;	selected revisions: 3
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.3
date: 2006/08/28 13:37:29;  author: wangnick;  state: dead;  lines: +0
-0;  kopt: b;  commitid: 41844f2f1960e3b;  filename: titeltext.gif;
ARWC-Webauftritt: Komplett neue Struktur.
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 2005/07/07 21:21:39;  author: wangnick;  state: Exp;  lines: +9
-2;  kopt: b;  commitid: a1442cd9ce22c0f;  filename: titeltext.gif;
Chinesisches Zeichen fuer Glueck korrigiert.
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2005/06/29 19:39:33;  author: wangnick;  state: Exp;  kopt: b;
commitid: d7842c2f8f56cdd;  filename: titeltext.gif;
Erste Version.
=============================================================================

So the file is there all right, but it does not get checked out at
all...


HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)