Re: strange error message

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:50:43PM -0700, Ted Irons wrote:
> cvs checkout: cannot open directory 
> /volume14/postfix/repo.cvs/postfix/mep/src/Shape: Value too large for defined 
> data type
> cvs checkout: skipping directory mep/src/Shape
>
> I'm running cvs-1.10.8 on solaris2.8 (with binary
> built for solaris2.7)

At a guess, this is your problem.  More specifically, it looks as
though the binary was compiled on/for a system that only supports
small "something"'s (probably 32-bit inode numbers), and the repo
is on a filesystem with larger whatever-they-are's (eg. 64-bit
inode numbers).

Try getting the 1.11 source and compiling it on the server
machine.

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