#1385 Erratic plink crash with SourceForge

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

TortoiseCVS 1.12.5.6 on Win 7 (6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1)

Uninstalled all CVSNT, overlay icons, and
previous Tortoise CVS to fix previous failure,
which was reported as bug 3231444 in:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3231444&group_id=48103&atid=451972

I tried to go to http://testpilot.tortoisecvs.org,
to check latest, but Firefox couldn't find it...

Commits to SourceForge have stopped working.
But commits to my own server still work.

One weird thing is I tried a CVS add to SF,
and got a failure window first, like the first
one below, but then got another dialog for
confirmation, it retried, plink asked for my
password, and it worked. But when I then tried
a commit I got the failure below again. Same
details. I tried it again, it asked for password,
and then it worked. Bizarre.

Running 64-bit Win 7 Ultimate; the icon overlay
doesn't show either, it did in 1.10.10.

In the CVS window:

Output
In C:\Users\Jeremy\AppData\Local\Temp\: "C:\Program Files (x86)\CVSNT\cvs.exe" -q ve...
CVSROOT=:ext:jeremyg@ditatestsuite.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ditatestsuite

cvs [version aborted]: end of file from server
(consult above messages if any)

Error, CVS operation failed.

And in a new window:

TortoisePlink has stopped working.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: TortoisePlink.exe
Application Version: 1.12.5.6
Application Timestamp: 4d3d6cef
Fault Module Name: MSVCR90.dll
Fault Module Version: 9.0.30729.4926
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a1743c1
Exception Offset: 00050fb6
Exception Code: c0000417
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 3c7d
Additional Information 2: 3c7d0a76f4fb3aa2e5f9d1015e9520b5
Additional Information 3: c350
Additional Information 4: c350e3db235ac9479f5f959a91e10129

[Arthur Barrett]

I've written on the mailing list many times before: I don't know why TortoiseCVS still includes PLINK because CVSNT has included this functionality using :ssh: for at least 7 years, eg:

cvs -z3 -d :ssh:developername@tortoisecvs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tortoisecvs co -P docs

By not requiring a separate process it's more reliable, and less likely to be affected by changes to the windows system environment. It'll also use putty profile names instead of hostname, eg:

cvs -z3 -d :ssh:myputtyprofile:/cvsroot/tortoisecvs co -P docs

Use a putty profile and the putty agent Pageant if you need to cache keys.

As for overlays, try the fix as described in bug 3440987. I didn't think 1.10.10 would work on Win 7 x64 at all, are you sure you weren't using 1.10.10 on Windows XP, and the icon overlays stopped after you upgraded to Windows 7? Anyway - different problem's probably require their own bug id.

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

Arthur Barrett wrote:

As for overlays, try the fix as described in bug 3440987.

Did that already, worked fine. Thanks.

I didn't think 1.10.10 would work on Win 7 x64 at all, are you sure you weren't using
1.10.10 on Windows XP, and the icon overlays stopped after you upgraded to
Windows 7?

Quite sure; the machine came with Win 7, and 1.10.10 worked fine on it for
a couple of years... The problem that drove me to upgrade was the new
one with SourceForge I described, which started within the last few months.

Anyway - different problem's probably require their own bug id.

Yes, I should have added the comment under the icons post, but as it just
confirmed that it worked...