Re: Corrupt directory in database

[Larry Jones]

richard blair writes:
> 
> I'm using a pserver to access the dbase and we're using Solaris 5.8 as
> our OS with NFS files system.  I found a work around for this problem,
> but have no idea why it ocurred in the first place.  The file that I
> metioned had an incomplete entry in the last line, so I deleted that
> entry.

Is your CVS repository on an NFS-mounted filesystem?  If so, that's
almost certainly the root cause of your problem: we've had lots of
reports of repository corruption caused by NFS interoperability
problems.  The symtom is typically truncation or a block of NUL bytes in
the middle of the file.  If you do have your CVS repository on an NFS-
mounted file system, I suggest you immediately move it to a local
filesystem (or move your CVS server to the NFS server machine) and run
the contrib/check_cvs perl script to check for any other corruption.

-Larry Jones

Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin