A few people have been experiencing hangs and/or premature EOFs from the
server with CVSup 13.5. The problem is caused by an incompatible mix of
Modula-3 shared libraries and header files. I inadvertently made it
possible for this to happen during a brief window when I split the
shared libraries into a separate "modula-3-lib" port.
This problem does not affect people who installed the "cvsup-13.5"
(binary) package.
Here is the scenario under which you might encounter the problems:
* You already had Modula-3 installed on your system.
* You built CVSup 13.5 from the port (i.e., from source).
* Building the CVSup port caused the new "modula-3-lib" port to
get
built and installed, but it did not cause the latest version of
the "modula-3" port to get built and installed.
Under this scenario, your CVSup port got built with a new set of shared
libraries, but an old set of header files. Here is another indication
that you are probably affected by this problem:
* The file "/usr/local/lib/m3/FreeBSD/libm3.so.4.0" exists on your
system.
* The file "/usr/local/bin/m3build-4" does _not_ exist on your
system.
If you think you've been hit by this problem, you can fix it like this:
* pkg_delete your "cvsup", "modula-3", and
"modula-3-lib" packages
(use "pkg_info -ac" to see which versions are installed).
* Make sure these three ports are up to date in your ports tree.
* Rebuild and install the "cvsup" port. (It will cause the other
two ports to be rebuilt and installed too.)
I apologize for causing this problem. I have fixed the ports so
that it shouldn't happen any more. The time window during which
the ports were wrong was from 10/29/96 23:14 GMT until 11/1/96 20:27 GMT.
Thanks to Satoshi Asami for first noticing the problem, and to James
FitzGibbon for helping me confirm the cause of it.
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth