[revml] Fwd: VCP error code

[Robert Cowham]

Personally I like to use P4Perl and print the error messages array.

It's all to easy to miss things on stderr otherwise.

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: revml-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:revml-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of barries at slaysys.com
> Sent: 17 May 2005 14:47
> To: revml at perforce.com
> Subject: [revml] Fwd: VCP error code
> 
> [Forwarded to revml list to get Perforce input]
> 
> Gerry et al.,
> 
> What can cause the p4 clients command to return a 255 result code?
> 
> Nick,
> 
> That error message indicates that the "p4 clients" command 
> returned a result code of 255 to the caller (VCP in this 
> case).  That's usually an error indication, so VCP is 
> conservative about letting a suspicious result code slip by 
> and dies instead.
> 
> Is there any other error text emitted to the screen or to the 
> log file?
> 
> - Barrie
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Subject: VCP error code
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:00:38 -0700
> From: "Nick Dor" <Nick.Dor at zoran.com>
> To: "Barrie Slaymaker" <barries at slaysys.com>
> 
> Hi Barrie,
> 
> I hope you are well.  
> 
> First of all, I'd like to let you know that your VCP tool was 
> a great help in moving one of our large CVS trees to Perforce 
> (Solaris to Linux
> 2004.2 respectively).  Thank You.
> 
> Now I'm trying to do the same with a Windows to Windows 
> conversion (CVSNT on Win2K3 to Perforce version 2004.2 on 
> Windows) and I've encountered the following error message:
> 
> p4 -u Admin -p znetest:1666 clients returned 255 not 0
> 
> Any idea how to read this?  The server has only one client 
> and one user and a separate p4 clients command returns the following:
> 
> Client ZNETEST 2005/05/17 root C:\temp\p4work 'Created by Admin. '
> 
> I've even deleted all the clients to prevent any output from 
> the p4 clients command, but I get the same error message.
> 
> Any help/direction you can give is greatly appreciated.
> 
> P.S. - I'm using the compiled vcp.exe for windows executable 
> found on the public perforce depot (vcp v0.9, change number 
> 4232 (2004/03/18))
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nick
> 
>  
> 
> Nick Dor
> 
> Sr. Applications Analyst
> 
> Zoran Corporation
> 
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> 
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