Psychtoolbox download problem

1
Hi,
I've been trying to install psychtoolbox on a Windows XP machine that
runs Matlab 7.0.0, but I've been having problems. I downloaded SVN,
rebooted the machine, and then tried to download psychtoolbox. After
10 minutes or so the download fails, and I get the following error:


Command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
svn: Can't open file
'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox\PsychContributed\.svn\tmp\text-base\nc.exe.svn-base':
The system cannot find the file specified.


Will retry now by use of alternative http protocol...
The following alternative CHECKOUT command asks the Subversion client to
download the Psychtoolbox:
svn checkout
http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/osxptb/beta/Psychtoolbox/
C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox

Sorry, the download command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
svn: 'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox' is already a working copy for a
different URL; run 'svn update' to complete it

Could anyone please tell me what to do? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Niranjana
2
Never seen this kind of error. Should work. Maybe delete folder and retry?

The only suspicion if it always fails for that 'nc.exe' file: Some brain-dead virus scanners
don't like that file, usually they just report some "Virus found", but maybe yours is
especially aggressive and eats our file? In that case, temporarily disabling the scanner
would help.

best,
-mario

--- In psychtoolbox@yahoogroups.com, nvis@... wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been trying to install psychtoolbox on a Windows XP machine that
> runs Matlab 7.0.0, but I've been having problems. I downloaded SVN,
> rebooted the machine, and then tried to download psychtoolbox. After
> 10 minutes or so the download fails, and I get the following error:
>
>
> Command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
> svn: Can't open file
> 'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox\PsychContributed\.svn\tmp\text-base\nc.exe.svn-base':
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>
> Will retry now by use of alternative http protocol...
> The following alternative CHECKOUT command asks the Subversion client to
> download the Psychtoolbox:
> svn checkout
> http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/osxptb/beta/Psychtoolbox/
> C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox
>
> Sorry, the download command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
> svn: 'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox' is already a working copy for a
> different URL; run 'svn update' to complete it
>
> Could anyone please tell me what to do? Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Niranjana
>
3
As it turns out, the virus scanner -was- overly aggressive (Symantec
Anti-Virus Corporate Edition). I had to go in and change the
HackTools threat to exclude Hacktools.NetCat (which is what it thinks
nc.exe.svn-base) falls under. I had to make sure that AutoProtect
was loaded, so it would find the file, and then report it, but do
nothing about it. Rather strange, in my opinion. I'd previously
come across a similar problem with the same AntiVirus software, but
instead of defaulting to destroying the file it gave me an option
(which made it much easier).

Thanks for the reminder about that file Mario.

-Brian Gold (with Niranjana and Kristina)
Vision Lab
Brandeis University

On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Mario Kleiner wrote:

> Never seen this kind of error. Should work. Maybe delete folder and
> retry?
>
> The only suspicion if it always fails for that 'nc.exe' file: Some
> brain-dead virus scanners
> don't like that file, usually they just report some "Virus found",
> but maybe yours is
> especially aggressive and eats our file? In that case, temporarily
> disabling the scanner
> would help.
>
> best,
> -mario
>
> --- In psychtoolbox@yahoogroups.com, nvis@... wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've been trying to install psychtoolbox on a Windows XP machine that
>> runs Matlab 7.0.0, but I've been having problems. I downloaded SVN,
>> rebooted the machine, and then tried to download psychtoolbox. After
>> 10 minutes or so the download fails, and I get the following error:
>>
>>
>> Command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
>> svn: Can't open file
>> 'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox\PsychContributed\.svn\tmp\text-base
>> \nc.exe.svn-base':
>> The system cannot find the file specified.
>>
>>
>> Will retry now by use of alternative http protocol...
>> The following alternative CHECKOUT command asks the Subversion
>> client to
>> download the Psychtoolbox:
>> svn checkout
>> http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/osxptb/beta/Psychtoolbox/
>> C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox
>>
>> Sorry, the download command "CHECKOUT" failed with error code 1:
>> svn: 'C:\toolbox\Psychtoolbox' is already a working copy for a
>> different URL; run 'svn update' to complete it
>>
>> Could anyone please tell me what to do? Any help would be much
>> appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Niranjana
>>
>
>
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