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Problem with Berkeley DB 3.2.9 in Windows 98

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2001-05-10 17:39:48 CEST

I have three boxes running the latest build of Subversion under
Win98. Compilation all happened without a hitch. I have svn.exe and
svnadmin.exe binaries built, as well as all the Berkeley db_xxx.exe
tools. From the looks of it, I should have a working local
repository.

But.

After a successful run of `svnadmin create repos' (in c:\), I have the
following:

    . <DIR> 05-10-01 10:19a .
    .. <DIR> 05-10-01 10:19a ..
    LOG~1 000 67,994 05-10-01 10:19a log.0000000001
    NODES 16,384 05-10-01 10:19a nodes
    REVISI~1 16,384 05-10-01 10:19a revisions
    STRINGS 16,384 05-10-01 10:19a strings
    TRANSA~1 16,384 05-10-01 10:19a transactions
    __DB 001 8 05-10-01 10:19a __db.001
    __DB 002 0 05-10-01 10:19a __db.002
    __DB 003 0 05-10-01 10:19a __db.003
    __DB 004 0 05-10-01 10:19a __db.004
    __DB 005 0 05-10-01 10:19a __db.005
            10 file(s) 133,538 bytes
             2 dir(s) 33,768.03 MB free

Now, I'm not entirely certain, but the sizes of those index files
look kinda scary. I can use db_dump to see all the tables themselves
with no complaints (nodes, revisions, transactions, strings), but any
time I programmatically to try to access the database, an error
occurs. For example:

    C:\repos>svnadmin lsrevs .

    svn_error: #21055 Berkeley DB error while opening environment
    for filesystem .:
    Resource temporarily unavailable

Now, I traced into the BDB code far enough to find where it fails.
BDB is trying to open the file "repos\__db.001", and is doing all
kinds of fun memory-mapping stuff, but once it's done so, it appears
to be reading some "region" information (a REGENV structure) from the
file, and when it can't find its magic thumbprint (DB_REGION_MAGIC),
it whines and quits.

So I looked at output of the same command when run in Linux:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 __db.001
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 270336 May 10 10:26 __db.002
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 98304 May 10 10:26 __db.003
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 319488 May 10 10:26 __db.004
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 __db.005
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 35226 May 10 10:26 log.0000000001
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 nodes
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 revisions
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 strings
    -rw-r--r-- 1 cmpilato users 8192 May 10 10:26 transactions

I took a look at the binary goo inside the Unix-created repository's
__db.001 file, and at the top, I saw actual header information,
including Berkeley's magic number. In fact, I found it really odd
that the index files under Windows where zero-length (except that one
odd 8-byte one), but under Unix, everything had at least 8k.

I've run into problems with APR in the past where they haven't kept
their MS API docs up-to-date enough to realize that sometimes Win98
doesn't behave exactly like Win95. I don't know if this is a similar
issue for Berkeley. What I do know is that this happens on all three
of my Win98 boxen, and that it kinda puts a dent in my plans to make
sure Subversion is just as great under Windows as it is under Unix! :-)

I will also be filing a bug with the above text on
subversion.tigris.org, and have Cc: support@sleepycat.com with this
mail.

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