problem with CVS

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Hi all,
I just tried to commit a big patch for italian translations and got this
error. I think this is a problem in the Alioth server. Could anyone
explain/fix it?

[...]
cvs diff: [00:35:55] waiting for eppesuig's lock in
/cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/mipsel/delo-installer/debian/po
Checking in utils/debian/po/it.po;
/cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/utils/debian/po/it.po,v  <--  it.po
new revision: 1.6; previous revision: 1.5
done
cvs diff: [00:35:55] waiting for eppesuig's lock in
/cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/partconf/debian
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 455, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 448, in main
    contextlines, fromhost, replyto)
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 275, in blast_mail
    resp = conn.sendmail(address, people, s.getvalue())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 466, in sendmail
    if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 317, in ehlo
    (code,msg)=self.getreply()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 269, in getreply
    raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 455, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 448, in main
    contextlines, fromhost, replyto)
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 275, in blast_mail
    resp = conn.sendmail(address, people, s.getvalue())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 466, in sendmail
    if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 317, in ehlo
    (code,msg)=self.getreply()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 269, in getreply
    raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
[...]
cvs diff: [00:36:25] obtained lock in
/cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/mipsel/delo-installer/debian/po
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 455, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 448, in main
    contextlines, fromhost, replyto)
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 275, in blast_mail
    resp = conn.sendmail(address, people, s.getvalue())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 466, in sendmail
    if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 317, in ehlo
    (code,msg)=self.getreply()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 269, in getreply
    raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
cvs diff: [00:36:25] obtained lock in
/cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/partconf/debian
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 455, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 448, in main
    contextlines, fromhost, replyto)
  File "/usr/bin/syncmail", line 275, in blast_mail
    resp = conn.sendmail(address, people, s.getvalue())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 466, in sendmail
    if not (200 <= self.ehlo()[0] <= 299):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 317, in ehlo
    (code,msg)=self.getreply()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.1/smtplib.py", line 269, in getreply
    raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

Bye,
Giuseppe