Re: Subversion repository breaks and needs recovery

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:05:48AM +0200, Morten Mertner wrote:
> About every few days and at least once a week Subversion has broken
> something for itself and will only respond after svnadmin recover has
> been executed. As this requires me to manually shutdown the Apache
> server to prevent simultanous access, it has become a definite
> show-stopper.
>
> This issue has been present since 0.37 up to and including 1.0.5. I am
> running Subversion on a Gentoo Linux box and the all repository access
> occurs through WebDAV (Apache2 and mod_svn).
>
> If there are any logging options or other mechanisms I can enable in
> order to provide more details on the problem, or of I can otherwise be
> helpful in troubleshooting this, let me know. It's a major problem for
> me and I would really like to see it solved.

Is the Apache server crashing? Can you enable core dumps for Apache and
rebuild subversion with --enable-maintainer-mode? Then use gdb to
provide us a backtrace of what happened?

Also it might be helpful if you can find the access_logs for the
operation/operations that broke the repo.

Beyond that hopefully one of the bdb experts can make some suggestions
that might help figure out how the repo is borken and that might give us
some clues...

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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