Re: cvsup failing with "ASSERT failed"

supraexpress_at_globaleyes.net wrote:
> A couple of times, now, on both FBSD-5.1-CURRENT and FBSD-4.8-STABLE whilst 
> running with 2MB of RAM, cvsup has "croaked" with the following error:
> 
> ***
> *** runtime error:
> ***    ASSERT failed
> ***    file "/usr/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.0/libs/m3core/src/runtime/
> common/RTHeapMap.m3", line 35
> ***
>    use option _at_M3stackdump to get a stack trace
> Abort trap (core dumped)

Oh, that *is* interesting.  I get this 100% of the time when trying to
run the i386 binary on my amd64 boxes.  Hmm.  Maybe I dont have an emulation
bug then?

peter_at_hammer[9:46am]~-99> ./cvsup -gL2 cvs-supfile 
Parsing supfile "cvs-supfile"
Connecting to malaise

***
*** runtime error:
***    ASSERT failed
***    file "/home/ports/lang/ezm3/work/ezm3-1.1/libs/m3core/src/runtime/common/RTHeapMap.m3", line 35
***

  use option _at_M3stackdump to get a stack trace
Abort (core dumped)

peter_at_hammer[9:46am]~-100> file ./cvsup
./cvsup: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.0.1, statically linked, stripped

Interestingly, file(1) wasn't taught about the new encoding scheme for
FreeBSD_version, but thats off on a tangent.

Cheers,
-Peter
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