[cvsnt] CVSNT client hangs when using compression with 1.11.2 UNIX pserve r

[Bo Berglund]

Do yourself a favour and check out the branch:
CVSNT_1_11_1_3_REL
instead of HEAD.
There are all kinds of strange stuff going on at HEAD, it is really
alpha code (as witnessed by the version output). Don't expect it to
work problem free.
The REL branch is much safer because Tony only sends updates there
after rather a lot of testing.

/Bo

BTW: My tests with build 57h work just fine.


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:25:23 -0400, Elliot Murphy
<elliot.murphy at veritas.com> wrote:

>Hello,
> 
>I am seeing a problem where the CVSNT client blocks at buf_shutdown when
>connected to a UNIX pserver. I initially started seeing this problem when
>one of the CVS servers that I connect to upgraded to CVS 1.11.2. I have seen
>this with a number of different versions of the CVSNT client, and have
>verified that it does not happen with the 1.11.2 Win32 client that is
>available from www.cvshome.org <http://www.cvshome.org> . In order to get
>more information about what is happening, I checked out the latest cvsnt
>source a couple of hours ago and built a debug version of the client.
> 
>I am running the command:
>cvs -z 3 version
> 
>The output is this:
>Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVSNT) 1.11.1.4 Alpha 2 (Nightly Build
>Debug Build 61) (client/server)
>Server: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
> 
>At this point the client is in get_responses_and_close(). The call to
>buf_shutdown(to_server) appears to go through just fine, and then the call
>to buf_shutdown(from_server) blocks. I have traced into
>buf_shutdown(from_server), and it is blocking in a recv() call. The call
>stack looks like this:
> 
>   <mailto:wsock32.dll!_recv at 16> wsock32.dll!_recv at 16()  
>  pserver_protocol.dll!tcp_read_raw(void * data=0x00af0000, int
>length=0x00001000)  Line 205 + 0x19 C
>  pserver_protocol.dll!pserver_read_data(const protocol_interface *
>protocol=0x1001a550, void * data=0x00af0000, int length=0x00001000)  Line
>278 + 0x10 C
>  cvs.exe!client_buffer_input(void * closure=0x003a78a0, char *
>data=0x00af0000, int need=0x00000001, int size=0x00001000, int *
>got=0x0012f3f0)  Line 567 + 0x18 C
>  cvs.exe!buf_read_line(buffer * buf=0x003a78e0, char * * line=0x0012f554,
>int * lenp=0x0012f548)  Line 818 + 0x1d C
>  cvs.exe!read_line(char * * resultp=0x0012f65c)  Line 640 + 0x14 C
>  cvs.exe!get_server_responses()  Line 3240 + 0x9 C
>  cvs.exe!start_server(int verify_only=0x00000000)  Line 3627 + 0x5 C
>  cvs.exe!cvsguiglue_main(int argc=0x00000001, char * * argv=0x003a635c)
>Line 1126 + 0x7 C
>  cvs.exe!main(int argc=0x00000003, char * * argv=0x003a6040)  Line 222 +
>0x2a C
>
>The problem only happens when I use compression, which is consistent with
>the comments near buf_shutdown(). I have no control over the CVS server that
>I am connecting to, and I doubt the sysadmin there will be very sympathetic
>to me since the "plain" 1.11.2 cvs client does not exhibit this behavior.
> 
>Any ideas about what might be causing this problem? I'm happy to debug
>further if more information would be helpful.
> 
>thanks,
>-elliot


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)