Thanks Larry, Problem is solved by getting a backup from a working file. The file had a bunch of crap characters at the end of that file. We have a NFS mounted repository so we are thinking about to changing to client/server version but we havn't decided on that yet.
/Goran [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Goran writes: > > > > When i commited a file to a repository the owner of that file was > > root(it should not have been so) and now when i try to look at the > > history for this file with 'cvs -f log' i get the following error: cvs > > [log aborted]: unexpected '\x0' reading revision number in RCS file > > /mnt/G/cvs/alarm/alarm.c,v > > The owner of the file has nothing whatsoever to do with the problem > you're having. The problem is that the RCS file has been corrupted. > The fact that the path to the file starts with /mnt leads me to believe > that you're using NFS to access your repository. Many people have > reported exactly this sort of corruption when using NFS-mounted > repositories due to interoperability problems between the NFS > implementations on the client and server systems. I strongly suggest > that you start using client/server CVS (with the CVS server having a > locally-mounted repository) instead of NFS-mounting the repository. > > There was a perl script posted here a while back that would examine an > entire repository for corruption; I suggest you find it and run it to > make sure you don't have any other files in the same state. Your only > options for repairing the damage is to revert to a good backup or to try > to repair the file by hand (the damaged file, a good backup, and a > thorough knowledge of the RCS file structure are required). > > -Larry Jones > > It's hard to be religious when certain people are never > incinerated by bolts of lightning. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
