abort: malformed response from CVS

[Markus Mayer]

On 8 May 2014 12:19, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Mayer <code at mmayer.net> writes:
>
>> On 8 May 2014 05:16, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 17:08 -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any tips how I could track this down further?
>>>
>>> What versions of CVS are you using?
>>
>> I had to upgrade the CVS on the Macs. It was 1.11.23 before, and that
>> caused other problems much earlier on. With the upgrade I got around
>> those issues. Now it's 1.12.13 everywhere. That's what I used when I
>> got the results I reported here.
>>
>> On both Macs (i.e. the same version works on one and not the other, so
>> it's likely not CVS causing the problems):
>
> Drive-by comment:
>
> I've seen similar errors on Ubuntu with the same CVS version while I was
> playing with converting the NetBSD repo. I can get into the debugger and
> see that it aborts around cvs.py:250 where the code is testing the
> beginning of the line.
>
> But ... that does little to help me debug because I have almost zero
> knowledge of how CVS works and what it should be spitting out.

FWIW, it looks like the issue was caused by a stale ~/.hg.cvsps/
directory (or rather the cache inside). I found it, removed it -- and
everything started working as expected. No issues with case
insensitive file systems or anything like that.

Is "hg convert" supposed to delete the cache after it's done? If a
stale cache can cause issues like this it seems like the cache
shouldn't be left behind.

Regards,
-Markus