[p4] cvs2p4: troubleshooting [signed]

[Mamadou Cisse [c]]

Yes, I did!

Gabor Maghera wrote:
> 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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