[Savannah-hackers] CVS problem: cvs: hash.c:312: findnode: Assertion `key != ((void *)0)' failed.

[Luca Saiu]

  Hi, I'm the maintainer of GNU epsilon, which is hosted on Savannah.
  I have a problem with CVS, probably due to a bug in my version (or 
yours?) of CVS. Mine says:
  Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
  When committing the file epsilon/epsilonyacc/epsilonyacc.epl I see a 
strange error from CVS, a failed assertion:

cvs: hash.c:312: findnode: Assertion `key != ((void *)0)' failed.

  I tried to make
    cvs delete; cvs add epsilonyacc.epl; cvs commit epsilonyacc.epl
  , but with no success ('cvs delete' and 'cvs add' seem to work as 
always, but cvs commit keeps emitting the same error). I read on a FAQ 
on the web that this can be related to the case-insensitive filesystems 
of Windows; but I don't use Windows! GNU epsilon has always being 
developed on GNU systems with ext2 or ext3; the machine from I was 
committing is a GNU/Linux machine (ext2), directly connected to the 
Internet with a modem. No network file systems, no case-sensitive 
filesystems, nor any other "strange" setup.

  Could you please manually remove the entry for 
epsilon/epsilonyacc/epsilonyacc.epl from the repository? This is the 
solution given in the FAQ.
  Commit for the other files seems to work normally.

  Thanks in advance for this little service and for your great work in 
general.

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Luca Saiu, maintainer of GNU epsilon
http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon