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> maybe not the right forum, but I suppose everyone
> here is using CVS, so...
>
> ...could anyone explain why I keep getting this error?
>
> $ cvs -z6 up -P -d
> ...
> cvs server: Updating dist/src/Tools/ht2html
> cvs [server aborted]: cannot open directory /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Tools/ht2html: No such
> file or directory
>
> it used to work...

EXPLANATION: For some reason that directory existed on the mirror
server but not in the master CVS tree repository. It was created once
but quickly deleted -- not quickly enough apparently to prevent it to
leak to the slave. Then we did a global resync from the master to the
mirror and that wiped out the mirror version. Good riddance.

FIX: Edit Tools/CVS/Entries and delete the line that mentions ht2html,
then do another cvs update.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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> ...could anyone explain why I keep getting this error?
>
> $ cvs -z6 up -P -d
> ...
> cvs server: Updating dist/src/Tools/ht2html
> cvs [server aborted]: cannot open directory
> /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Tools/ht2html: No such
> file or directory
>
> it used to work...

It stopped working a week ago Thursday, and Guido & Barry know about it.
The directory in question vanished from the server under mysterious
circumstances. You can get going again by deleting the ht2html line in your
local Tools/CVS/Entries file.