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Near disasters

Looks like I spoke too soon on the Leopard upgrade.

Everything is fine now, but today saw two mini crises:

1) I composed a message to Dave, our IT guy, to let him know the upgrade went well. I hit send and… got a message from Mail.app that my message couldn’t be sent. Long story short, Leopard was setting my hostname to Macintosh. Since this is not a fully qualified hostname, the OSAF SMTP server rejected my messages outright. The fix was to set up my home network’s domain name and restart.

2) Once that was ironed out I started in on a long overdue bug. Once I finished it I merged it to the remote SVN tracking branch as usual and typed “git svn dcommit” to ship it out. To my horror I was rewarded with:

Percent_expand: NULL replacement Network connection closed unexpectedly: Connection closed unexpectedly at /opt/local/bin/git-svn line 1005

Turns out this is a bug in the MacPorts SSH library that git-svn uses to connect to our Subversion server. A fix that worked beautifully can be found here.