Yes, you're right.
it absolutely makes versioning modules unusable.
There is no way how to mount the new CVS FS (nor off-line mode selection cann't
help), so I increasing priority to P1.

Thanks you very much Mike,
but could you next time specify build #no.,please?
It's printed in your ~/nbuser32/system/ide.log and in the Tittle of the main
window. Or if you are using continues build, pls, specify the timestampt.
It might save a time to us:-).

Here is the first NPE in Request Processor:
Fri Mar 23 18:05:39 GMT+01:00 2001java.lang.NullPointerException: null
Annotation: Exception occurred in Request Processor
org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Holder(task
org.netbeans.modules.vcscore.wizard.mountcvs.LoginPanel$2@cbb70 [-199710, 1])
        at
org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.createHolder(RequestProcessor.java:274)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor.post(RequestProcessor.java:98)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor.post(RequestProcessor.java:71)
        at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor.postRequest(RequestProcessor.java:157)
        at
org.netbeans.modules.vcscore.wizard.mountcvs.LoginPanel.loginButtonActionPerformed(LoginPanel.java:277)
        at
org.netbeans.modules.vcscore.wizard.mountcvs.LoginPanel.access$000(LoginPanel.java:34)
        at
org.netbeans.modules.vcscore.wizard.mountcvs.LoginPanel$1.actionPerformed(LoginPanel.java:170)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1450)
        at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1504)
        at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:378)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:250)
        at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:216)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:3717)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:3546)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1164)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2595)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1213)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:2451)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:2216)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2125)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1200)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:912)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:333)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
        at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:370)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.superShow(NbPresenter.java:476)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.run(NbPresenter.java:499)
        at org.openide.util.Mutex.doEventAccess(Mutex.java:855)
        at org.openide.util.Mutex.readAccess(Mutex.java:145)
        at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.show(NbPresenter.java:480)
        at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:946)
        at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:903)
        at org.netbeans.core.ModuleFSSection.create(ModuleFSSection.java:89)
        at
org.netbeans.core.actions.MountAction$1.actionPerformed(MountAction.java:83)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1450)
        at
javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1504)
        at
javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:378)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:250)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:279)
[catch] at
javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$MouseInputHandler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:886)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:3717)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:3546)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1164)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2595)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1213)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:2451)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:2216)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2125)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1200)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:912)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2499)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:333)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)

Sorry about the lack of a build number. I built it myself. I should probably 
put something in my own build script that captutres the GMT of the CVS 
checkouts that I did.

I was too shy to make this a P1, I agree that for your module this is P1, but I 
am new to how to categorize these things in terms of all of netbeans. My 
thinking was that netbeans continues to be useable, but not the CVS module.

If you can reply back with the best way to do give you the build information I 
will try to figure it out. 

I did my CVS update around 07:00 PST (15:00 GMT???). as you can see below, 
my "build number" would have not helped much.

     [exec]   IDE Versioning        = IDE/1 spec=1.2.1 impl=mottati-20010322

ok, sorry about that. I was fixing a bug on win98 and broke all the other 
operating system.
It should be fixed in release32 build 13, and dev build 154.

*** Issue 10747 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Target milestone -> 3.2

Verified in development build #199 of NetBeans.

Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.