Big trouble with CVS

[Phil Edwards]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> I understand that there is an upgrade in the making and perhaps I should 
> just wait...

Upgrade is over, but you'll still be waiting...

> paolo:~/Gcc/cvs-dirs/Sandbox-head> cvs -z9 update
> Permission denied.
> cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if 
> any)

...because your DNS server is probably still caching the old IP address.
Same thing happened to me, and I got the same error message.

The new address is 66.187.233.205.  If gcc.gnu.org resolves to that address
for you, and you still have errors, then it's some other problem.  :-)


Phil

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