Re: SIGSEGV in error.c:155 using cvs-1.11.6

[Larry Jones]

David Shea writes:
> 
> When I tried to create a new file in a CVS repository to which I don't
> have write access, the remote CVS process segfaulted.  I was connecting to
> the server using ssh.  The local process output the following:
> 
> cvs server: ERROR: cannot write file /repository/project/newfile,v: 
> Permission denied
> Terminated with fatal signal 11
> Core dumped; preserving /tmp/cvs-serv8268 on server.
> CVS locks may need cleaning up.
> 
> The corresponding core dump on the server indicated that the segfault
> occurred when strlen was called with a NULL argument in error.c at line
> 155.

I can't reproduce this.  Could you post a full traceback?

-Larry Jones

Geez, I gotta have a REASON for everything? -- Calvin