scmuser created the topic: p4 replication: do not read compressed journals? p4 replicate and p4 pull (when replicating metadata) do not read compressed journals. Therefore, the master server must not compress rotated journals until the replica server has fetched all journal records from older journals Based on the major issue, how should be solve this?
scmuser created the topic: Unable to read AppleDouble Header. Iām getting some errors which I never saw before when renaming SASD to ASDCX project: Unable to read AppleDouble Header. open for read: C:\XXXXXXXX\%Rabbit.png: The system cannot find the file specified. Unable to read AppleDouble Header. Submit aborted — fix problems then use ‘p4 submit -c…
scmuser created the topic: Prompting password frequently in Perforce Recently, p4 is asking me for my password more than once a day. I usually connect to server:1666 from eclipse, cygwin terminal and p4v. Also, I have 3 machines that I use ā windows desktop, windows laptop and mac desktop. Does anyone know why I need…
scmuser created the topic: Reverting Another User’s Files Could you please help me with following… How do I revert files opened in another user’s client workspace? How do I revert files for a user or client that no longer exists? rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: Reverting Another User’s Files There are two ways to revert…
scmuser created the topic: Remote depot ” database access failed I get following Errors.. what can be the reason? Remote depot ” database access failed. Access for user ‘remote’ has not been enabled by ‘p4 protect’.
scmuser created the topic: lock the branch in perfoce We want to lock the release branch so that there are no more check-ins. Could you please do the same. rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: lock the branch in perfoce modify the protect table using… write group * * -//depot/release_branch/… Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @…
rajeshkumar created the topic: How to create new group in Perforce. Step 1: Login to perforce server using super account. ļ p4 -p -u login Step 2: Create a group using following command ļ p4 -p -u group Step 3: This will prompt you a form in which you need to add LDAP ids which…
scmuser created the topic: Perforce tickets issues Some of the devs on my team have been asking about whether Perforce tickets really need to be bound to IPs. It’s pretty annoying to have to re-authenticate when switching from wireless to wired. When we first switched to OTP, I don’t recall it working this way, but…
rajeshkumar created the topic: force users to upgrade their perforce client software How to force users to upgrade their perforce client software kb.perforce.com/article/1363/how-to-forc…heir-client-software Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @ twitter.com/RajeshKumarIn
rajeshkumar created the topic: Perforce client version numbers v99999 The mystery v99999 is an artifact of how older releases of the p4 command line client set the protocol level. In the code, it looked something like this: client.SetProtocol( “api”, “99999” ); In the absence of better version information, the server logs the API protocol level,…
rajeshkumar created the topic: To know Password last changed for this perforce user I have come across 2 ways.. 1/. User form field will have following options… PasswordChange: Read-only The date and time of the user’s last password change. If the user has no password, this field is blank. OR p4 -p IP:PORT -u users…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Operation ‘dm-SubmitChange’ failed in perforce Solution for following error… Operation ‘dm-SubmitChange’ failed. Sequence error: next changelist ‘Change 73’ already exists! Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @ twitter.com/RajeshKumarIn
rajeshkumar created the topic: Prompting password repeadetly in perforce Some checks need to be done. 1. Check .p4ticket folder exist or not? .p4ticket can be found iin %USERPROFILE%\p4tickets.txt(windows) and $HOME/.p4tickets(other OS) 2. Check .p4ticket file permission and its directory permission. May be its not able to write entry in .p4ticket due to permission issues. 3….
rajeshkumar created the topic: Rollback vs Back Out in perforce Rollback vs Back Out in perforce Both of these operations restore a set of files to a previous state. The difference being: Back Out Submitted Changelist X The restore operation is restricted to the files submitted in changelist X. Roll Back Rolling back can involve…
rajeshkumar created the topic: perforce user deletion issues. Today i was trying to delete some perforce users and found some strange issues as below; Problem p4 user -d -f raj User rajhas file(s) open on 2 client(s) and can’t be deleted p4 -u raj-c -H opened Access for user ‘raj’ has not been enabled by…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Blocking “dot” files in perforce. Following Info was shared with me by My mentor Todd / Stanton. I hope this might helpful for perforce community. You can block “.” dot files in perforce using protect table only which will not be applicable for admin but users. list group * * -//…/.*…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Use of Perforce Spec Depot. Use of Perforce Spec Depot. There was many questions in my mind such as Is there any way to find out old access given to perforce user? Is there any way to find group history? The solution which i found out is:spec depot the solution was…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Start the Perforce Proxy without cache timestamp checking Problem: Perforce Proxy cache and timestamp issues. Solution: start perforce proxy using “-k” It is not in the System Administrator’s Guide or the output of “p4p -h”. You will find the following as part of “p4 help undoc”: p4p -k … Start the…
nitish created the topic: Perforce Commons Hi everyone, Does anyone installed Perforce commons? I can’t get it to work. I am not using the OVA image but I want to install it from scratch. Thank you for your help. rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: Perforce Commons Hi checco007, I never tried this tools. Seems to…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Find files in workspace that perforce doesn’t know about Questions: Find files in workspace that perforce doesn’t know about Find out the p4 files missing on your disk How to find out what files arenāt added in your Perforce client dir /s/b/a-d | p4 -x- have > nul: 2>missing.txt – Windows…
scmuser created the topic: P4 Revert error I am getting a P4 error I don’t know how to fix. Hopefully you have a solution for it. I have a file needs to be resolved, when I clicked on the Accept Merge, P4 said: “File rename failed after 10 attempts, rename cannot create a file when…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Perforce generic Error guide error Sorry, you cannot run p4 fstat on remote depot //remote_depot/… Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @ twitter.com/RajeshKumarIn
rajeshkumar created the topic: Purely numeric name not allowed Issues : Purely numeric name not allowed. Solution: This error can be happen when Purely numeric name is mentioned in Group name, Specname, Username etc. This should be verified using “p4 info” Also, check if following hostname has numeric value which was set in p4 info…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Configuring line-ending settings in perforce Unix uses one byte, 0x0A (LineFeed), while windows uses two bytes, 0x0D 0x0A (Carriage Return, Line feed). To Find the files which has Windows line endings egrep -l $’\r\n’ * in Bash To Convert files from DOS TO unix dos2unix -U file if the file has…
rajeshkumar created the topic: How to add files in perforce with characters @, #, *, and %? How to add files in perforce with characters @, #, *, and %? To add files containing the characters @, #, *, and %, use the -f flag. This flag forces literal interpretation of characters otherwise used by…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Some Common Perforce Error Problem: Perforce client error: TCP send failed. write: socket: Connection reset by peer Solutions: These issues occur only when perforce client and perforce server is not able to receive or sent data packets to each other. This can be due to various reason. Check following… 1. Fix…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Script to remove Perforce user which is LDAP disable >> p4 users | cut -f 1 -d ” ” | grep -v ^user | xargs -n 1 /var/tmp/ldaplookupuser.pl Content of ldaplookupuser.pl #!/usr/bin/perl my ($InUser) = shift; # print “[INFO] Validating Perforce user – ${InUser}\n”; my ($LookupUser)=`ldapsearch -LLL -x uid=${InUser} uid`; print…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Customize changelist description field with templates The way most of our customers add additional fields to the change description is with the use of triggers and scripts that add extra fields within the “description” field. www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/ma…cmdref/triggers.html As an example: add-fields.py: ********************* #!/usr/bin/python import os import sys import re import random users…
rajeshkumar created the topic: TCP receive exceeded maximum configured duration of 300 seconds The error message you are seeing is because the network data is not being received on the client within 300 seconds. This is probably a networking setup, firewall or networking path/saturation problem. – Does the problem just occur on this client machine?…
rajeshkumar created the topic: Reopen and revert files in perforce. If the perforce user access has been removed/blocked from user table and they have so many files opened. There could be two ways to to revert the files. Problem: p4 -p server:port -u username -c clientname -H hostname revert //… Access for user ‘username ‘…