www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6 corrupted?

[Paul Jackson]

It seems that running "hg pull -u" from kernel.org linux-2.6 corrupts
my hg repositories.  They pass verify before the pull, the pull fails,
and they fail verify thereafter.

I suspect something is amiss with http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6.

Details:
========

An attempt just now to update my kernel hg repository:
	hg pull -u	# from default = http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6
failed, displaying:

====================== begin ======================
$ hg pull -u
pulling from http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2691 changesets with 7991 changes to 3501 files
abort: data/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.i: no node 3a221e8f7ca4959f4ff84e770b3ac4693c03e9fe!
======================= end =======================

Not being sure if the corruption was in my existing repository, or
coming from kernel.org, I ran "hg verify" on both this repository (call
it "A"), and another one I had on a different machine (call it "B").

The verify on A failed with hundreds of complaints such as, for
example:

node 90244fc8531929506347a96d6055801011e92f2c in manifests not in drivers/scsi/libsrp.c
node 6ed56fa25946e076274e97f395f1bc5a01a192f0 in manifests not in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
node 9c1ac08ec1f9a1a11b5b9acda154aec6baf208f4 in manifests not in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
node 70ced890159e9105e348ea8d2a8281ae592025c2 in manifests not in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc.h
node 43bd9c72bfc15347060f86d24d85826bfa9ff63c in manifests not in drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c

The verify on B came up clean.  B had not been "hg pull -u"'d since October 17, 2006.

I made a complete local copy of B, and ran "hg pull -u" on the copy.  That failed:

====================== begin ======================
$ hg pull -u
pulling from http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2691 changesets with 7991 changes to 3501 files
abort: data/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.i: no node 3a221e8f7ca4959f4ff84e770b3ac4693c03e9fe!
======================= end =======================

And an "hg verify" of this copy after the failed "hg pull -u" produces
some 300+ 'node ... in manifests not in ..." complaints.


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