[MITgcm-support] CVS error

[Chris Hill]

Hi Ed,

 Problem has gone away when I switch to /s01 on cg01 (from /s00) so I
think there is a client side issue too. /s00 is reiserfs where /s01 is
ext3. 

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:49 PM
> To: MITgcm-support
> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] CVS error
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:28, Chris Hill wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >  I am getting "unknown error 523" when doing "cvs co". I wasn't 
> > getting this earlier today I think. Anybody know what is going on?
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> If you google for: 
> 
>   CVS "unknown error 523"
> 
> then theres two things that emerge:
> 
>   1) the "unknown error 523" string is some sort of catch-all error 
>      message for CVS, and
> 
>   2) it seems to be a sporadic thing thats somehow associated with
>      people using CVS against NFS-mounted repositories
> 
> So I don't have a good fix for this one.  Perhaps we should 
> point people
> at:
> 
>   [t]csh:
>     setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvsanon at auden.lcs.mit.edu:/u/u0/gcmpack
>   bash:
>     export CVSROOT=":pserver:cvsanon at auden.lcs.mit.edu:/u/u0/gcmpack"
> 
> so that folks aren't using an NFS-mounted volume?  Does that 
> help for you?
> 
> Ed
> 
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