Re: HELP!! - Berkeley DB error

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:02:59AM -0700, sjohnson wrote:
> We've been using svn for about 6 weeks now without a problem prior to
> tonight. Tonight, we started getting this error when we tried to do
> anything with our repository:
>
> Berkeley DB error while checkpointing after Berkeley DB transaction
> for filesystem
> /usr/local/svn_repository/db: Invalid argument
>
> I did a "svnadmin recover" on the repository and then tried checking
> some things out. I then did an update in anticipation of a submit.
> This all seemed to work OK.
>
> Then I went to do a submit, and I got this error:
>
> Berkeley DB error while appending string for filesystem
> /usr/local/svn_repository/db:
> DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
[snip]

Sounds like it might be a permissions problem. Make sure that whatever
user is accessing the repository has read and write access to all the
files in the repository's db subdirectory (and to the directory itself.)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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