[cvsspam-devel] RuntimeError => couldn't get cvs status: (exited with 256)

[David Holroyd]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:29:20AM -0500, Piergiuliano Bossi wrote:
> Recently I've seen a lot of errors like these:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:211:in `process_log': couldn't get
> cvs status:  (exited with 256) (RuntimeError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:195:in `each'
>         from /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:195:in `process_log'
>         from /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:178:in `open'
>         from /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:178:in `process_log'
>         from /usr/local/lib/cvsspam/collect_diffs.rb:465
> 
> It is really not clear to me what can cause this. These errors seem pretty
> random.

> Any comment? Suggestions?

I'm afraid I've got no clue.  I've not seen anything like that happening
on our old CVS install.

Could there be some resource shortage on the CVS server that means
processes just fail sometimes (not enough memory / filehandles / ..)?


ta,
dave

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