On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:47:59AM -0700, James Hartley wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jan Niemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or maybe he is trying to checkout xenocara/font/misc-misc/18x18ja.bdf > > and running on amd64. that does not work for me either and shows the > > same error message (can not reallocate 5242880 bytes). > > on i386 everything should be fine. > > I experienced this problem last week, & searching through the archives > shows this had been chronicled some time back: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119470113431785&w=2 > > CVSync servers running on AMD64 are problematic. Switching to a > server not running on AMD64 is the solution. Consult: > > http://openbsd.org/cvsync.html > > ...or: > > http://news.netcraft.com/ > > ...to determine what platforms any particular server is using. >
Another alternative to consider is opencvs. Since it has been connected into the -current build (not sure about 4.3) one can simply say 'opencvs' where one said 'cvs' before. I believe that opencvs can check out that file. .... Ken
