Louis-David,
> I am at wit's end here. After re-installing CVS from scratch, rebuilding
> the repository from a fresh import, I still get this maddening error
> when committing:
>
> styx:/usr/local/auction% cca
> Checking in Project/index.md;
> /var/cvs/auction/Project/index.md,v <-- index.md
> new revision: 1.7; previous revision: 1.6
> done
> cvs [server aborted]: received broken pipe signal
>
> Our server is a Debian Linux machine updated to the latest tools.
>
> The crazy part is it happens 80% of the time, and not at all on another
> repository (same CVSROOT) on the same machine.
>
> What does this mean?
I began having the same problem and ultimately traced it to entries in the
loginfo file. I had multiple entries searching for various modules (e.g.
^src1, ^src2) calling an auto_update.sh script, followed by a final line
which was ALL calling log_accum.pl. I moved that last line (ALL) to the
beginning of the loginfo file, and that seemed to fix the broken pipe (don't
ask why - I don't know).
I cannot say with certainty that this is the same issue you may be having,
but I would suggest deactivating your loginfo script as a starting point and
go from there.
Hope this helps,
David
