Bug 13036

Summary:	Developer access to CVS broken
Product:	freedesktop.org	Reporter:	Torsten Schönfeld <kaffeetisch>
Component:	Version control	Assignee:	fd.o Admin Massive <sitewranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Torsten Schönfeld 2007-11-01 05:42:29 UTC

When I try to update or checkout anything (testet with cairo/cairo-perl and gstreamer/gstreamer) using the :ext: way, I get the following error message:

  $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:tsch@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/gstreamer co gstreamer
  E: locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
  cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

Any insights?

Comment 1 Torsten Schönfeld 2007-11-15 08:38:45 UTC

Anyone?

Comment 2 Benjamin Close 2007-11-19 21:17:27 UTC

Howdy, I think this might be a non freedesktop.org related bug.

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165

seems to indicate it's a gentoo bug. Perhaps to confirm you could do:

export LC_ALL="C"

then run the cvs command.

Comment 3 Torsten Schönfeld 2007-11-20 11:28:12 UTC

Yep, looks like this does indeed fix the problem.  Thanks!

My system is Ubuntu Hardy with cvs 1.12.13 and LANG="en_US.UTF-8", LC_ALL="".  It's weird that this doesn't happen with other CVS servers (sf.net, savannah.gnu.org).  But anyway, it seems to be no freedesktop.org issue.  So I guess this bug report can be closed.

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