Built in CVS doesn't work against certain cvs servers - results in "Valid requests expected!" : IDEA-32697

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Project	IntelliJ IDEA
Priority	Major
Type	Bug
Fix versions	No Fix versions
State	Open
Assignee	Irina Chernushina
Subsystem	Version Control. CVS
Affected versions	No Affected versions
Fixed in build	No Fixed in build

Created by Rick Maddy
5 years ago (15 Jul 2006 01:51)
Updated by Irina Petrovskaya
22 months ago (04 Mar 2010 15:29)
Jira: IDEADEV-10546
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IDEA-32697 Built in CVS doesn't work against certain cvs servers - results in "Valid requests expected!"

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Is duplicated by:
IDEA-17780

For several versions of IDEA (4.0.x, 4.5.x, 5.0.x, and now 5.1.x) the combination of cvs and ssh doesn't work with certain cvs servers. The most recent is my Sourceforge project for my IdeaVIM plugin. All other cvs clients have no problem accessing that cvs repository but IDEA can't access it at all. All I ever get is the "Valid requests expected!" error.

As some others have determined in the IDEA forums, it appears that this problem only happens against certain versions of cvs and possibly when the server is on a specific OS.

Sourceforge recently redid all their cvs servers so this is a new problem with Sourceforge. But at least this gives you a good concrete example of when your cvs code won't work.

Basically no one with a Sourceforge project can use IDEA anymore with CVS. This is critical for me.

This assumes a CVSROOT of the form :ext:user@host:/path and CVS_RSH=ssh

Rick

Environment: Problem exists for any version of IDEA on any OS. Problem is dependent on cvs server environment.

Rick Maddy

16 Jul 2006 09:12

5 years ago

I was just playing around with this some more and discovered something interesting. If I change my settings for the SourceForge related CVSROOT to use IDEA's internal ssh instead of my external ssh, I can make this work. Even though the native ssh works just fine from the shell, it doesn't work within IDEA.

Kimball Johnson

14 Sep 2006 21:20

5 years ago

This is a problem that occurs for me also, basically our cvs server is setup such that when using the console the CVS_SERVER enviroment variable is required, to tell cvs wherefind the cvs binary at the server end of the ssh session. I have this set before running IDEA, but it does not seem to be hounoured. I am affected using both the internal ssh implementation, and by setting the external ssh to /usr/bin/ssh

Michael Chepovetsky

12 Sep 2009 01:56

2 years ago

Has it been fixed for TeamCity? - I am using TC 4.5.3 and am getting the same error (Linux, Solaris and Windows).