On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 jasper@nedlinux.nl wrote:

> This afternoon, when I was updating my pkgsrc with the following command:
> "cvs -q up -dP" , my laptop freezed (because of Frozen Bubble). So I
> rebooted it the hard way and I decided to run "cvs -q up -dP" again, since
> it wasn't finished at the time of the reboot. But after a while I received
> the following error: "cvs update: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname
> (not `X:')
> cvs update: when using local access method.
> cvs [update aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `X:'. "

Maybe you have corrupted CVS/Root files. Have a look at pkgsrc/CVS/Root
and other files.

For example, maybe your pkgsrc/CVS/Root could contain:

:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot

 Jeremy C. Reed

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