This page tracks requests for actions from the vcs-imports operator.

To request an import, please see the instructions on VcsImports.

Note that we only do imports of MAIN branches on CVS (the form will have to be updated to remove the "branch" field) and trunk branches on Subversion.

We will handle your request and keep you informed of progress or issues. You can contact the vcs-imports operator: ddaa in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net.

Template to request an import:

• [https://launchpad.net/people/<launchpad-user> <launchpad-user>]: [https://launchpad.net/products/<launchpad-product>/<series> <product>/<series>] BR <location> BR @DATE@

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Incoming

Open requests

Imports that need intervention from the vcs-imports operator.

In progress

Imports being processed.

Blocked

Imports that are currently failing, and for which no fix is currently being worked on.

[svn] svn_subst_translate_stream3

Imports that failed with the following error:

python2.4: /build/buildd/subversion-1.3.1/subversion/libsvn_subr/subst.c:809: svn_subst_translate_stream3: Assertion `eol_str || keywords' failed.
process killed by signal 6

It looks like a problem in the svn code for keyword expansion.

• [https://launchpad.net/people/kamion kamion]: [https://launchpad.net/debian-installer/main debian-installer/main] BR svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/installer BR Date(2007-01-23T13:52:03Z) BR Note: the import is currently set up to import from a local copy of the repository: file:///home/importd/d-i.repo/trunk/installer

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/mcs/trunk mcs/trunk] BR svn://svn.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/mcs BR Date(2007-01-23T13:56:36Z)

[svn] wrong repository root

The current svn import code determines the root of the repository by walking up the URL until svn ls fails. This was necessary because older versions of libsvn_client did not expose the repository root information. Newer libsvn_client allow to determine this information directly. In cases where there are nested svn repositories, the old logic is wrong and that cause the change filtering (ignoring change outside of the branch being imported) to ignore legitimate changes.

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/libsyncml/trunk libsyncml/trunk] BR http://svn.opensync.org/libsyncml/trunk BR Date(2006-11-28T11:56:17Z)

[svn] unreliable server

The current svn import code makes many connections and does not retry when one fails. If the server is in the least unreliable (one failure every few thousand attempts to create a session) that will cause the import to fail.

It could be that some of these failures are caused by another specific bug. From a discussion with Jelmer:

> > >    * Don't rely on listdir() kind results. Fixes imports of several 
> > >      repositories. (#56647)
> > I'm curious about this bug. Can you tell me more?
> It turned out that the .kind member of dirents returned by
> svn.ra.get_dir2() is (semi-?)random when used against older Subversion
> servers. It would occasionally be 1 (svn.core.svn_node_file) even though
> the entry in question was a directory. This took me a while to track
> down. Instead, I've switched to always trying to open something as a
> directory and catching the appropriate exception that indicates it's a
> file.

That's very interesting. A number of Launchpad imports fail in a not-deterministic way with "failed REPORT". Currently I just classify those failures as "unreliable server", but I was puzzled by a pattern I noticed: the failures did not happen in a really random way.

It might be the same bug.

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/deluge/trunk deluge/trunk] BR http://deluge-torrent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk BR Date(2006-11-28T11:51:08Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/python2.4-matplotlib/trunk matplotlib/trunk] BR https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib BR Date(2006-11-29T09:58:17Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/brltty/main brltty/main] BR svn://mielke.cc/main/brltty BR Date(2006-11-29T10:32:43Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/codeblocks/trunk codeblocks/trunk] BR svn://svn.berlios.de/codeblocks/trunk BR Date(2006-12-04T14:03:14Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/xorg-driver-synaptics/main xorg-driver-synaptics-main] BR https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/synaptic/trunk BR Date(2006-12-06T10:40:09Z)

• [https://launchpad.net/people/dsnopek dsnopek]: [https://launchpad.net/products/dojo/trunk dojo/trunk] BR http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/dojo/trunk BR [Date(2006-08-31T20:10:43Z)]

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/wesnoth/trunk wesnoth/trunk] BR http://svn.gna.org/svn/wesnoth/trunk BR Date(2006-12-08T13:26:17Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/libgcrypt/trunk libgcrypt/trunk] BR svn://cvs.gnupg.org/libgcrypt/trunk BR Date(2006-12-08T13:29:30Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/libcaca/trunk libcaca/trunk] BR svn://svn.zoy.org/libcaca/trunk BR Date(2006-12-11T14:46:59Z)

• nobody: [https://code.launchpad.net/gwenview/trunk gwenview/trunk] BR svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics/gwenview BR Date(2007-01-23T14:03:32Z)

• kiko: [https://launchpad.net/kiwi/trunk kiwi/trunk] BR svn://svn.async.com.br/kiwi/trunk BR Date(2007-01-29T12:50:43Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/phpmyadmin/trunk phpmyadmin/trunk] BR https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phpmyadmin/trunk/phpMyAdmin BR Date(2007-02-15T16:50:50Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/cinelerra-cv/trunk cinelerra-cv/trunk] BR svn://svn.skolelinux.org/cinelerra/trunk/hvirtual BR Date(2007-02-15T16:55:10Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/qterm/trunk qterm/trunk] BR https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qterm/trunk/qterm BR Date(2007-02-15T16:59:14Z)

[svn] missing uri-encoding

cscvs uses the svn_client API to libsvn to retrieve data (on Date(2006-11-09T14:31:29Z)), but does not correctly uri-encode locations. So file names that contain characters that must be escaped cause import failures.

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/dcsharp/trunk dcsharp/trunk] BR Date(2006-11-09T14:31:29Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/wxmsn/trunk wxmsn/trunk] BR Date(2006-11-09T14:34:42Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/tmw/trunk tmw/trunk] BR https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/themanaworld/tmw/trunk BR [Date(2006-09-29T15:57:33Z)]

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/pcm/trunk pcm/trunk] BR http://clanmanager.googlecode.com/svn/trunk BR Date(2006-11-29T09:11:13Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/pychess/trunk pychess/trunk] BR http://pychess.googlecode.com/svn/trunk BR Date(2007-02-15T16:52:47Z)

[svn] import stalls, or is too slow

The import system will kill any job that does produce output for "a long time" (4 hours, at time of writing, on Date(2007-02-15T17:32:46Z)). So if, for some reason, an import does not report progress for a long time, either because it is stuck or because it is really slow, it will fail.

• [https://launchpad.net/~jbailey jbailey]: [https://launchpad.net/eglibc/trunk eglibc/trunk] BR svn://svn.eglibc.org/trunk BR Date(2007-02-15T17:32:46Z)

[cvs] failed to open the modules file

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/greasemonkey/trunk greasemonkey/trunk] BR :pserver:guest:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs greasemonkey BR Date(2006-11-09T14:24:47Z)

cscvs needs to read the modules file to ignore configs (aka externals, nested trees).

$ cvs -d :pserver:guest:guest@mozdev.org:/cvs co -c
cvs [checkout aborted]: failed to open the modules file

[cvs] file created by merge

• Anchor(epiphany-browser)[https://launchpad.net/people/seb128 seb128]: https://launchpad.net/products/epiphany-browser/main BR :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome epiphany BR [Date(2006-10-16T14:54:17Z)]

  • On changeset MAIN.67 BR ValueError: attempt to patch non extant file : data/ui/epiphany-toolbar.xml.in

  • The cscvs log (with changesets) first mentions epiphany-toolbar at changeset MAIN.67, it refers to revision 1.2 of this file and records it as a 'M' (modification), which fails to apply since the file is not present in the imported tree at this point.

Relevant fragment of the cvs log:

$ cvs rlog epiphany/data\/ui/epiphany-toolbar.xml.in

RCS file: /cvs/gnome/epiphany/data/ui/Attic/epiphany-toolbar.xml.in,v
head: 1.17
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
[...]
        eog-menu-api: 1.1.0.2
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 19;    selected revisions: 19
description:
----------------------------
[...]
----------------------------
revision 1.2
date: 2003/01/20 18:57:15;  author: mpeseng;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -0
2003-01-20  Marco Pesenti Gritti  <marco@it.gnome.org>

        * Merge eog-menu-api branch
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2003/01/20 17:53:25;  author: mpeseng;  state: dead;
branches:  1.1.2;
file epiphany-toolbar.xml.in was initially added on branch eog-menu-api.
----------------------------
revision 1.1.2.1
date: 2003/01/20 17:53:25;  author: mpeseng;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -0
implement context menus
----------------------------
[...]

• Anchor(grub2)[https://launchpad.net/people/jbailey jbailey]: https://launchpad.net/products/grub/grub2 BR :pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/grub grub2 BR [Date(2006-10-20T16:10:46Z)]

  • On changeset MAIN.340 BR ValueError: attempt to patch non extant file : disk/lvm.c

[svn] Cannot import whole repository

The svn import code fails at processing imports at the root of a svn repository. Some repository are set up that way, with the actual root containing the source code. That's broken, but people actually do this.

• nobody: https://launchpad.net/products/gtimelog/devel BR http://mg.pov.lt/gtimelog/svn BR [Date(2006-10-23T16:31:04Z)]

• nobody: https://launchpad.net/products/josm/trunk BR http://www.eigenheimstrasse.de/svn/josm BR [Date(2006-10-23T16:31:04Z)]

• nobody: https://launchpad.net/products/comix/trunk BR https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/comix BR [Date(2006-10-23T16:31:04Z)]

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[cvs] None branch in findLastFileRevision

While creating changesets: assertion error, branchName is None in findLastFileRevision CVS/CacheGenerator.py:160

It looks like it means something is really busted with filler revisions and default branches.

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lifeless lifeless]: https://launchpad.net/products/squid/2.6 BR :pserver:anoncvs:anoncvs@cvs.squid-cache.org:/squid squid BR [Date(2006-10-31T16:02:19Z)]

• [https://launchpad.net/people/lifeless lifeless]: https://launchpad.net/products/squid/3.0 BR :pserver:anoncvs:anoncvs@cvs.squid-cache.org:/squid squid3 BR [Date(2006-10-31T16:02:19Z)]

File name not supported by bzr

• nobody: https://launchpad.net/products/unixodbc/main BR :pserver:anonymous@unixodbc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/unixodbc unixODBC BR [Date(2006-08-29T11:27:45Z)]

  • on changeset MAIN.1 BR The branch contains a file named odbctest/C:\IB6TRACE.LOG (yes, starting with C:\!) BR in bzrlib.workingtree.WorkingTree.add BR bzrlib.errors.NotVersionedError: ['odbctest', 'C:'] is not versioned BR

[cvs] Absurd filler revision

Anchor(xrms)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/xrms/trunk xrms/trunk] BR :pserver:anonymous@xrms.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xrms/ xrms BR [Date(2006-09-29T21:20:41Z)]

  • on changeset MAIN.4167: BR CRITICAL: requested checkout of reporoot '/cvsroot/xrms', file 'xrms/include/adodb/pear/Attic/readme.Auth.txt', revision '1.1.1.2' BR CRITICAL: log of checkout responses follow. BR CRITICAL: "E cvs checkout: cannot find module BR `xrms/include/adodb/pear/Attic/readme.Auth.txt' - ignored\n" BR CRITICAL: 'error \n'

  • cscvs creates a filler changeset 1.1->1.1.1.2 for include/adodb/pear/readme.Auth.txt, but there is no revision 1.1.1.2 for that file. The cvs rlog shows revision 1.1 (branches: 1.1.1) used in changeset MAIN.915, revision 1.1.1.1, not used by cscvs. The cvs log header for that file reads "head: 1.1" and "branch: 1.1.1".

lifeless suggests:

(15:28:25) lifeless: I'd do a search in the file revision table for that file, all revisions, see what cscvs is thinking happened to it
(15:29:45) ddaa: you suggest it might be a problem in the log parser and checking the catalog contents would help narrowing the cause of the problem?
(15:33:11) lifeless: something is inventing the .2
(15:33:22) lifeless: if its in the catalog then the catalog generator can be checked
(15:33:42) lifeless: if its not in the catalog then the application-of-changesets can be checked
(15:33:45) lifeless: it will narrow it down
(15:34:03) lifeless: As its a very small rlog I'd make a test case from it

• [https://launchpad.net/people/jordi jordi]: [https://launchpad.net/products/gtetrinet/trunk gtetrinet/trunk] BR :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome gtetrinet BR Date(2006-11-30T17:27:49Z)

  • on changeset MAIN.394 BR CRITICAL: requested checkout of reporoot '/cvs/gnome', file 'gtetrinet/src/Attic/tetris.h', revision '1.15.2.2' BR CRITICAL: log of checkout responses follow. BR CRITICAL: "E cvs server: cannot find module `gtetrinet/src/Attic/tetris.h' - ignored\n" BR CRITICAL: 'error \n'

  • cscvs creates a filler changeset 1.1->1.15.2.2 for gtetrinet/src/tetris.h but the log of that file only has revisions 1.1, 1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.1.2.2, 1.1.1.1.2.1.

[cvs] Checkout gave no file data

Anchor(tomboy)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/tomboy/head tomboy/head] BR :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome tomboy BR Date(2006-12-04T14:23:12Z)

WARNING: N changeset MAIN.745
CRITICAL: checkout did not give file data and did not indicate file was removed.
CRITICAL: requested checkout of reporoot '/cvs/gnome', file 'tomboy/www/img/intro.gif', revision '1.1'
CRITICAL: log of checkout responses follow.
CRITICAL: 'ok\n'

The cscvs log for this changeset:

ChangeSet: 745
Author: orph
Date: 2004/09/18 08:52:21
Branch: MAIN
CVSDefaultFiller
Revisions:
        F www/img/intro.gif [1.1->1.1] +0-0

Filler changeset 1.1->1.1

[svn] repository password protected

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/yast/trunk yast/trunk] BR https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/yast/trunk BR Date(2006-12-08T13:34:33Z)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/bauble/trunk bauble/trunk] BR https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/bauble/trunk BR Date(2006-12-08T13:46:06Z)

Unknown failures

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/dtv/trunk dtv/trunk] BR https://svn.participatoryculture.org/svn/dtv/trunk BR [Date(2006-10-23T16:19:12Z)]

  • On checkout (yeah, tested with actually "svn co" on command line) BR REPORT request failed on '/svn/dtv/!svn/vcc/default' BR REPORT of '/svn/dtv/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read chunk delimiter: Secure connection truncated (https://svn.participatoryculture.org)

• nobody: [https://launchpad.net/products/cups/main cups/main] BR http://svn.easysw.com/public/cups/trunk BR Date(2006-11-29T10:08:15Z)

  • On full-tree import of initial revision

WARNING: change 161
WARNING: change 166
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/importd/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/CommandLineRunner.py", line 67, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/importd/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/CommandLineRunner.py", line 64, in main
    doer.runMethod(method, dirname)
  File "/home/importd/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/CommandLineRunner.py", line 57, in runMethod
    getattr(self._job, method)(logger=self.logger, dir=dirname)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/Job.py", line 188, in runJob
    strategy(self, dir, logger)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/JobStrategy.py", line 100, in Import
    self.runtobaz("-SI", "%s.1" % aJob.branchfrom, target_path, logger)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/importd/JobStrategy.py", line 84, in runtobaz
    totla.totla(config, logger, config.args, self.sourceTree())
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/cscvs/cmds/totla.py", line 262, in totla
    apply_changeset(source_tree, logger, apply, revision, target_tree, revisions)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/cscvs/cmds/totla.py", line 130, in apply_changeset
    fileChange.apply(logger, target_tree, prune)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/svn_oo/PresentFile.py", line 46, in apply
    self.url(), self.revision)
  File "/srv/importd.ubuntu.com/dists/launchpad/lib/svn_oo/util.py", line 116, in writeFile
    revision=pysvn_revision, peg_revision=pysvn_revision)
pysvn._pysvn.ClientError: Code: 00020f58

Failed to fork, memory error

Some large imports fail to os.fork() (when spawning gpg to sign a revision) with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory". It's not clear why that happen, since Linux should overcommit memory up to 50x (the value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio) and allow large processes like cscvs to spawn small processes like gpg.

• [https://launchpad.net/people/siretart siretart]: https://launchpad.net/products/mplayer/trunk BR svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk BR [Date(2006-06-12T13:15:00Z)]

  • On changeset changeset 5343

• [https://launchpad.net/people/jbailey jbailey]: https://launchpad.net/products/glibc/head BR :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/glibc glibc BR [Date(2006-08-29T10:36:24Z)]

  • On changeset MAIN.15819

• [https://launchpad.net/people/carlos]: https://launchpad.net/products/elisa/trunk BR https://core.fluendo.com/elisa/svn/trunk BR [Date(2006-09-06T09:43:12Z)]

  • On changeset 7

Fix in progress

Failures for which a fix is currently being worked on.