Connection to an existing pserver might sometimes fail (on SourceForge
for instance), retrying the operation usally fixes the issue.
(swh) anlambert@carnavalet:/tmp/cvs_test$ swh loader -C ~/.config/swh/loader/cvs.yml run cvs pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help INFO:swh.loader.cvs.loader.CvsLoader:Load origin 'pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help' with type 'cvs' Request: BEGIN AUTH REQUEST /cvsroot/yazoo anonymous A END AUTH REQUEST ERROR:swh.loader.cvs.loader.CvsLoader:Loading failure, updating to `not_found` status Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/anlambert/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-core/swh/loader/core/loader.py", line 383, in load self.prepare() File "/home/anlambert/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-cvs/swh/loader/cvs/loader.py", line 487, in prepare self.cvsclient = CVSClient(url) File "/home/anlambert/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-cvs/swh/loader/cvs/cvsclient.py", line 227, in __init__ self.connect_pserver(url.hostname, url.port, url.username, url.password) File "/home/anlambert/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-cvs/swh/loader/cvs/cvsclient.py", line 115, in connect_pserver raise NotFound( swh.loader.exception.NotFound: pserver authentication failed for a.cvs.sourceforge.net:2401: b'cvs pserver: cannot read /cvsroot/yazoo/CVSROOT/config: Operation not permitted\n' {'status': 'uneventful'} for origin 'pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help' (swh) anlambert@carnavalet:/tmp/cvs_test$ swh loader -C ~/.config/swh/loader/cvs.yml run cvs pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help INFO:swh.loader.cvs.loader.CvsLoader:Load origin 'pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help' with type 'cvs' Request: BEGIN AUTH REQUEST /cvsroot/yazoo anonymous A END AUTH REQUEST {'status': 'eventful'} for origin 'pserver://anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/yazoo/help'