On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:40:56PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> In article <20041210.070931.68546826.johan@giantfoo.org>,
> 	johan@giantfoo.org (Johan A.van Zanten) writes:
> > cvs [update aborted]: unable to parse /cvsroot/src/distrib/hp300/miniroot/inst/Attic/dot.profile,v; `author' not in the expected place
> 
> It sounds like the sources on the server are corrupt, but I have no
> such trouble with a clean checkout of that directory from anoncvs. The
> original sources came from an ISO 9660 image? What does "cat CVS/Root"
> show? If it's not ":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot", try
> specifying the main server as that, with the "-d" argument.

I had that ?yesterday? - a subsequent cvs update was successful, so the
cvs server is probably happy now :-)

Patrick