[27608] in Athena Bugs
Odd behaviour with CVS under ubuntu 12.04
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Alexander)
Sun Oct 28 15:31:15 2012
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:31:09 -0400
From: "Carl Alexander" <xela@mit.edu>
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When I logged into mkc --- which is running amd64_ubuntu1204
Debathena --- I wanted to work on one of my dotfiles:
xela@mary-kay-commandos:~/cvsroot/xela/dotfiles$ cvs diff bash_alias
cvs diff: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option
cvs [diff aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
This struck me as odd, because I routinely use CVS without that
environment variable. I later checked on linerva, and got the
expected behaviour:
xela@dr-wily:~/cvsroot/xela/dotfiles$ cvs diff bash_alias
xela@dr-wily:~/cvsroot/xela/dotfiles$
Just to be sure, I ran env | grep CVS and got the same resuot on
both hosts, namely
CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
I should note that, while I _was_ able to get the problem to
repeat itself on a second try a few minutes after the first
occurrance, I was _not_ able to reproduce it 20 minutes later,
in the same window in the same login session.
---Alex
