[p4] cvs2p4: troubleshooting [signed]

[Gabor Maghera]

Have you recompiled RCS 5.7 to create the patched/modified version of rlog?

Gabor

On Nov 13, 2007 9:02 AM, Mamadou Cisse [c] <mcisse at acquisinc.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use cvs2p4 to migrate a cvsNT repository to Perforce on a
> Ubuntu Dapper box.
> I couldn't get the test/runtest script to run properly. It always came
> back with a "bad results" from the bin/genmetadata script.
> Being unable to find out why, I've decided to try my luck with the
> bin/cvs2p4 script. This one is throwing the error:
> [[
> Journal file 'dbmeta' replay failed at line <num>!
> Word too big fo a number!
> ]]
> I've been scouring the web for answers for the last week or so and
> couldn't find any clear understanding of the causes or the remedies.
>
> Can anybody help with some sample?
>
>
> ========== change group 1
> dochanges> cd /tmp/cvs2p4-3.0b6/p4root && /usr/bin/p4d -r . -jr dbmeta
> Perforce db files in '.' will be created if missing...
> Recovering from dbmeta...
> dochanges: *** "cd /tmp/cvs2p4-3.0b6/p4root && /usr/bin/p4d -r . -jr
> dbmeta" exited with signal 0 status 255
> dochanges: "/usr/bin/p4d -r . -jr dbmeta" failed.
> *** dochanges  FAILED
>
>
> Best Regards,
> mcisse.
>
>
>
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