Hung 'svn commit' (for the last 8 hours)

My automatic update of the APC (Archive of Perl Changes) hung last night after I
upgraded Perl::Repository::APC and attempted to import the 5.6.2 branch. I see
the 'svn commit' just sitting there (and I cannot access that repository). I
have plenty of RAM and hard-disk available and the existing svn session seems to
be doing little or no work at this point.

Should I kill the process and try and recover the database (I can reconstruct
from the beginning if I have to, it'll take 2 days). I don't expect to be able
to debug the import program here; I'll work with the author directly on that.
Mostly, I am hoping someone will say "Oh, that! I recognize that!" so Andreas
and I have something to go on.

This is the log where the 5.6.2 branch should be created and populated (I don't
yet know where the initial "Filesystem has no item" is coming from):

-------------------------------------------------

2003-09-21 01:03:26.053511500 #### maint-5.004 5.004_05 619 3296 ###
#
2003-09-21 01:03:38.133982500 #### maint-5.005 5.005_04 3218 18681 ###
#
2003-09-21 01:03:38.134743500 For 5.005_04 there is no tarfile to check in; noth
ing left to do.
2003-09-21 01:03:42.941805500 #### maint-5.6 5.6.3 9675 19718 ###
#
2003-09-21 01:03:42.942527500 For 5.6.3 there is no tarfile to check in; nothing
  left to do.
2003-09-21 01:03:42.967940500 svn: Filesystem has no item
2003-09-21 01:03:42.968024500 svn: URL non-existent in that revision.
2003-09-21 01:03:43.387110500 Sun Sep 21 01:03:43 2003: Running ("svn","mkdir","
-m","mkdir branches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2","file:///var/svn/perl5/branches/maint-
5.6/perl-5.6.2")
2003-09-21 01:03:44.108553500
2003-09-21 01:03:44.108557500 Committed revision 17396.
2003-09-21 01:03:44.110135500 Sun Sep 21 01:03:44 2003: Running ("svn","cp","-m"
,"Generating maint branch maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2 from 5.6.1 for 5.6.2","file:///va
r/svn/perl5/tags/branchpoints/5.6.1","file:///var/svn/perl5/branches/maint-5.6/p
erl-5.6.2/mbranch")
2003-09-21 01:03:46.367026500
2003-09-21 01:03:46.367031500 Committed revision 17397.
2003-09-21 01:03:50.025847500 Sun Sep 21 01:03:50 2003: Running ("svn","mkdir","
-m","mkdir branches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2/rel","file:///var/svn/perl5/branches/ma
int-5.6/perl-5.6.2/rel")
2003-09-21 01:03:50.559644500
2003-09-21 01:03:50.559648500 Committed revision 17398.
2003-09-21 01:03:51.003267500 #### maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2 5.6.2 20325 2128
1 ####
2003-09-21 01:03:57.811453500 Sun Sep 21 01:03:57 2003: Running ("svn","co","-q"
,"file:///var/svn/perl5/branches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2/mbranch","perl-wc")
2003-09-21 01:05:30.247803500 Sun Sep 21 01:05:30 2003: Running ("zcat ../APC/5.
6.2/diffs/*.gz | perlpatch2svn --branch maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2")
2003-09-21 01:05:31.447745500 svn: Filesystem has no item
2003-09-21 01:05:31.447942500 svn: file not found: revision `17396', path `/bran
ches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2/mbranch'
2003-09-21 01:05:31.545544500 Warning (probably harmless): Can't close 'svn log
-r 17396': at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Perl/Repository/APC2SVN.pm line 63
.
2003-09-21 01:05:31.577371500 svn: Filesystem has no item
2003-09-21 01:05:31.577576500 svn: file not found: revision `17395', path `/bran
ches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2/mbranch'
2003-09-21 01:05:31.655660500 Warning (probably harmless): Can't close 'svn log
-r 17395': at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Perl/Repository/APC2SVN.pm line 63
.
2003-09-21 01:05:31.688177500 svn: Filesystem has no item
2003-09-21 01:05:31.688370500 svn: file not found: revision `17394', path `/bran
ches/maint-5.6/perl-5.6.2/mbranch'
2003-09-21 01:05:31.766669500 Warning (probably harmless): Can't close 'svn log
-r 17394': at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Perl/Repository/APC2SVN.pm line 63
.
<snip>
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There seems to be a few seemingly successful 'svn add' (but no commits) until a
big one (about 80 files), where the process has seemingly hung since 1:07am
local time. I can send the full log of last night's activity to anyone who is
interested.

TIA

John

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