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In attempting to compare a java file with the most recent in the repository I received an "Invalid CVS repository location format: :ext:simba.colorado.edu/home/cvsroot" message. I also get the same message when I try to synchronize this package. The details from the Unable to Synchronize dialog say that it is an "Error in host specfication". This packge has been under CVS control, along with the rest of packages in the application for a while so it is not due to adding a new package. I have observed this happen at what seems like random times in the past so it does not appear to be an isolated incident.
Hi Folks, A bit more info for you. The CVS/Root file for the directory in question lost my user ID in the server string. Adding my username back into the file appears to have fixed the problem.
moving to platfrom vcm for comment
How did the CVS/Root file get changed? Did you run an external CVS tool?
I don't think it got changed by any of the cvs command line tools. I didn't move any files/directories or the repository or execute any cvs admin commands. The only cvs commands I can recall executing where cvs diff and cvs status since eclipse kept complaining about synchronization issues.
From looking at the code, I can't see any way that the location became ":ext:simba.colorado.edu/home/cvsroot" from inside Eclipse. There should be a colon between the host and path and we add the colon or use existing location strings in all the places I found. You say this happens at random times. Did you even check your project out from scratch since the problems started (I'm postulating that there may have been a one time corruption of many ROOT files that is surfacing as you perform operations on different folders). Also, it may be helpful to know what synchronization issues you are having.
Hi Michael, I checked all the other CVS/Root files and they appear fine find . -name Root -exec cat {} \; :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot :ext:rickg@simba.colorado.edu:/home/cvsroot As I was putting my response together I just ran into another Sync problem. The dialog bx is titled "Erros saving CVS synchonization information to disk. Please fix the problems listed below" The text in the dialog says: Problems encountered performing commit Reason: Resource is out of sync with the file system: /Etomo/src/etomo/util/CVS/Entries I had created a new JUnit test in that directory. Added the file to source control. Wrote the unit test. I received the above dialog when I went to commit it. It looks like the commit happened because the CVS tags are updated. But eclipse thinks it is still modified ( > symbol next to the source file in the package explorer). If I do a "compare with latest from repository" the CVS compare window appears but here are no apearent differences. You aksed if I have ckecked out my project from scratch. Probably not for several days.
The "out of sync" exception is usually the result of the Entries file being touched/modified by an external tool such as the CVS command line client. If you are using the command line client, you should refresh the project you used the external CVS tool on before performing any CVS operations. There is an auto- refresh plugin available from the Platform Core development resources page that may help you. Here's the link. http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core- home/dev.html As for the original problem, I'm still at a lose for what happened. We'll keep this bug open for a while. If the problem reoccurs, please annotate the bug with the additional information.
Hi, Even after closing the rechecking out the sandbox from the reposistory I am still getting "out of sync" message after each time I add a new class. For example: 1. I added a new JTest class to a package 2. Modified another class and went to commit it 3. Elipse complained that the Entries file was out of sync for this package 4. I synchronized the package 5. Now it says there are 2 files that are modified (in addition to the one I attemped to check in and the new JTest class). These files were not modified and a compare shows no differences between the. A hopefully useful observation is that the time in the Entries file does not agree with lates mod time in the log tag for files that were unmodofoed but Eclipse identified as modified. The Entries file line is: /CombineParams.java/1.7/Wed Oct 9 00:01:56 2002// The log tag for that file is: * <p> $Log: CombineParams.java,v $ * <p> Revision 1.7 2002/10/09 00:01:57 rickg * <p> added copy constructor * <p> convert whitespace strings to zero length string in set methods * <p> added patchBoundaries to load and store * <p> added revision number They are one second difference, is this confusing Eclipse? Rick
Is your workspace located on a network drive or SAMBA drive?
Hi Michael, Yes, my workspace is on a NFS drive. The machines are sync'd using rdate every minute. Rick
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17647 ***
This is not a dup of bug 17647
Apologies, I didn't read all the comments. It does sound similar. However, the problems in bug 17647 related to unix/pc clearcase interop. The problems here are reported for a unix only environment.
