src repo busted?

src repo busted?

[Pedro Alves]

I seem to have managed to do something nasty to the src repo.  I'm getting:

cvs [update aborted]: head attribute does not match file for `/cvs/src/src/gdb/ChangeLog,v

in my regular checkout, and a fresh checkout comes out practically empty.

It seems this has happened before:

 http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-08/msg00091.html

-- 
Pedro Alves

Re: src repo busted?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:33:05PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>I seem to have managed to do something nasty to the src repo.  I'm getting:
>
>cvs [update aborted]: head attribute does not match file for `/cvs/src/src/gdb/ChangeLog,v
>
>in my regular checkout, and a fresh checkout comes out practically empty.
>
>It seems this has happened before:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-08/msg00091.html

I set up a cron job awhile ago which is supposed to fix this.  Is it
still a problem?

cgf

Re: src repo busted?

[Pedro Alves]

On 04/19/2012 07:49 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:33:05PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> I seem to have managed to do something nasty to the src repo.  I'm getting:
>>
>> cvs [update aborted]: head attribute does not match file for `/cvs/src/src/gdb/ChangeLog,v
>>
>> in my regular checkout, and a fresh checkout comes out practically empty.
>>
>> It seems this has happened before:
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-08/msg00091.html
> 
> I set up a cron job awhile ago which is supposed to fix this.  Is it
> still a problem?


Frank pinged me on irc to try it again, and it works now.  Dunno if that was
your cron job that fixed it.

You probably guessed it, but TBH, last thing I did, was, checking in a patch, and had
one of those "oh, no, this is not what I want to check in, panic, panic, ctrl-c, ctrl-c"
moments.

AFAICS, the /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog file managed to end up committed
<http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/ChangeLog?rev=1.14136&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src>
but nothing else did.

Thanks,
-- 
Pedro Alves

Re: src repo busted?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

cgf wrote:

> I set up a cron job awhile ago which is supposed to fix this.  [...]

When I tried to rm or mv the fileattrs file by hand, as root, the
kernel gave me -EPERM, for no intelligible reason.  So your cron job
probably couldn't do its job either.  (I could do an echo > ... so the
immediate problem was solved.)

I suspect some sort of mental upset within the kernel, perhaps
justifying a reboot.

- FChE

Re: src repo busted?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:23:50PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>Hi -
>
>cgf wrote:
>
>> I set up a cron job awhile ago which is supposed to fix this.  [...]
>
>When I tried to rm or mv the fileattrs file by hand, as root, the
>kernel gave me -EPERM, for no intelligible reason.  So your cron job
>probably couldn't do its job either.  (I could do an echo > ... so the
>immediate problem was solved.)
>
>I suspect some sort of mental upset within the kernel, perhaps
>justifying a reboot.

The script does a chattr +i on fileattr.  You probably ran afoul of
that.  It zeroes the file with a cp /dev/null ...  so it probably would
have actually fixed the problem eventually.

cgf