PCL-CVS error

[Martin Lüthi]

Symptoms:

I am checking in some files with PCL CVS:  [M-x cvs-update]
then I mark some files, press [c], enter a commit message,
press [C-c C-c] and the files get checked in. However I get the
following error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  expand-file-name(nil)
  cvs-parse-commit()
  cvs-parse-table()
  cvs-parse-run-table(cvs-parse-table)
  cvs-parse-buffer(cvs-parse-table nil nil)
  cvs-parse-process(nil nil nil)
  eval((cvs-parse-process (quote nil) nil (quote nil)))
  cvs-sentinel(#<process cvs> "finished\n")
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("ÆÇ        !ˆÈ ˆÉ\n!ˆƒBÊed\"\fVƒ6ebˆË\f¥yˆ`dbˆË\f¥\fZyˆ
`|ˆ)ÌcˆebˆÍÎÏ \"ˆÐ address@hidden"ˆÕ ˆÍÖ!ˆÔ×ÔÍØ!ˆŠÙ ˆ,ׇ" 
[unread-command-char debugger-buffer debugger-args noninteractive 
debugger-batch-max-lines middlestart -1 pop-to-buffer debugger-mode 
debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message "%s" buffer-string 
kill-emacs debug backtrace-debug 3 t debugger-reenable "" nil "" recursive-edit 
buffer-read-only standard-output inhibit-trace] 3)
  debug(error (wrong-type-argument stringp nil))
  expand-file-name(nil)
  cvs-parse-commit()
  cvs-parse-table()
  cvs-parse-run-table(cvs-parse-table)
  cvs-parse-buffer(cvs-parse-table nil nil)
  cvs-parse-process(nil nil nil)
  eval((cvs-parse-process (quote nil) nil (quote nil)))
  cvs-sentinel(#<process cvs> "finished\n")

I use 
> cvs -v
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.14 (client/server)

Thanks, Martin

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-10-08 on sandy
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Debugger

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p M-v M-v M-v C-n C-n C-p C-n C-p <C-next> c C-c 
C-c C-x C-a C-p C-a C-SPC C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
M-x r e p <tab> o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Running cvs update ...
CVS process has completed in *cvs*<3>
Mark set [2 times]
Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.
(No files need saving)
Running cvs commit ...
Entering debugger...
Mark set
Making completion list... [2 times]
Loading emacsbug...done