Roy's musings

Today while I was trying to synchronize my code with CVS repository and I got the following error: Problems reported while synchronizing CVS Workspace. 0 of 1 resources were synchronized. An error occurred synchronizing /abcd: I/O exception occurred: java.io.IOException: channel is broken I/O exception occurred: java.io.IOException: channel is broken java.io.IOException: channel is broken I was scratching my head for sometime and searched Internet for an answer, but none seemed to be appropriate for my case. Then when I tried to do the check out from command line using plink, I got a message from my CVS server stating that my password had expired and I needed to change my password. So I changed my password and everything started working fine. If you get the error message above, one possible and easy to check root causes is your password expiry.

I faced a very weird problem while I was trying to find log, check out or update files from the CVS repository. The following error message was flashed on the screen: [myuserid@localhost java]$ cvs log . myuserid@mycvshost's password: cvs-1.11.17_p2 log: Logging . : No such file or directoryopen directory /cvsroot/my/repository cvs-1.11.17_p2 log: skipping directory myuserid@mycvshost's password: " but pserver says "/cvsroot/my/repository"/my/repository I could sense that this might be related to some CRLF (Carriage Return-Line Feed) issue, as all the error lines seem to be starting with what look like end of string delimiters (":" or "\""). So to further clarify my doubt I redirected the output to a file and this is the exact error message I was getting: cvs-1.11.17_p2 log: Logging . cvs-1.11.17_p2 log: cannot open directory /cvsroot/my/repository^M: No such file or directory cvs-1.11.17_p2 log: skipping directory Protocol error: Root s...