Re: Can't recover db

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Blair Zajac wrote:

> This looks like fun:
>
> Was trying a commit which hung, and trying to recover the database fails:
>
> svnadmin recover test
> Acquiring exclusive lock on repository db.
> Recovery is running, please stand by...
> Recovery completed.
> subversion/libsvn_fs/bdb/bdb-err.c:61: (apr_err=160029)
> svn: Berkeley DB error
> svn: Berkeley DB error while opening `changes' table for filesystem test/db:
> Invalid argument
>
> Any ideas?

Check the permissions of all files in the db directory to make sure that
you have write permission to all of them. A very common problem is that
httpd is run with umask 22 wich will make the database files read-only for
others in the same group.

/Tobias

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Received on Fri Apr 11 19:20:02 2003