bin/46148: cvs(1) broken in NetBSD 6.0_BETA

[tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost]

>Number:         46148
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       cvs(1) broken in NetBSD 6.0_BETA
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 06 17:25:00 +0000 2012
>Originator:     Matthias Scheler
>Release:        NetBSD 6.0_BETA 2012-03-03 sources
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD colwyn.zhadum.org.uk 6.0_BETA NetBSD 6.0_BETA (COLWYN.64) #0: 
Sat Mar 3 14:27:52 GMT 2012 
tron%colwyn.zhadum.org.uk@localhost:/src/sys/compile/COLWYN.64 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
I've got various problems with cvs(1) since I've upgraded my server to
NetBSD 6.0_BETA. As I use a local copy of the NetBSD CVS repository for
checkouts my best guess is that the server part is broken. CVS e.g.
crashed with this error message:

Mar  6 16:07:06  cvs: error (1, 0) called recursively.  Original message was:
Mar  6 16:07:06 colwyn cvs: cvs [checkout aborted]: flow control EOF 
Mar  6 16:07:06 colwyn cvs: error (1, 0) called recursively.  Second message 
was:
Mar  6 16:07:06 colwyn cvs: cvs [checkout aborted]: received broken pipe signal 
Mar  6 16:07:06 colwyn cvs: Aborting.

I've also seen it twice putting "xsrc" into a random sub directory of
"src" on checkout. Something is really wrong with the updated
cvs(1) in "netbsd-6".

>How-To-Repeat:
Create a local copy of the NetBSD CVS repository and try to check out
e.g. the "netbsd-4" branch with the following command:

cvs -q checkout -A -P -rnetbsd-4-0 src 

>Fix:
Not known.