Re: Subversion repository breaks and needs recovery

Morten Mertner wrote:
> I believe you are right in that it is a locking problem, as the svnadmin
> process
> will lock/wait indefinately if I try to run the recovery without
> shutting down
> Apache.

That's not a locking *problem*. That is the svn libraries using locking to prevent you from destroying your repository by running
recovery whilst it is still in use.

There are several layers of lock.

1) Subversion repository locking.
2) BDB environment locking.
3) BDB data locking.

Here, you are observing level 1 functioning correctly.

When your repository is hanging, I believe the culprit is a stale lock at level 2.

Max.

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Received on Sun Jul 4 15:20:33 2004