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Re: Problem accessing local repo

From: Art Haas <ahaas_at_airmail.net>
Date: 2004-07-29 21:01:14 CEST

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:42:44PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:23, Art Haas wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Subversion has been working well for me for months, but my latest update
> > and build now gives the following error when trying to access a repo
> > kept on my machine:
> >
> > svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> > svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///mnt/src/svnrepo/pythoncad/trunk'
> > svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
> > /mnt/src/svnrepo/db:
> > Invalid argument
>
> This is issue 1968. Would you post a tarball of your repository for us
> to examine?

Sure. I'll reply to your reply once the repo is available. I'll put it
on my PythonCAD site so that it can be fetched from there.

> > Any known code issues from a day or two ago that cause Berkeley DB to
> > get messed up?
>
> No, see issue 1968. We've not touched BDB code in ages and ages.

> > My latest build also used Debian's 'libdb-4.2' package instead of my own
> > built DB-4.2 libraries. The 'libdb-4.2' libraries are configured so that
> > the 'db.h' header file redefines various calls by appending a number to
> > the call, and my older (home-built) library was not configured to do
> > that. As that change should just effect building and run-time linkage, I
> > don't see how that could affect the reading of existing Berkeley DB
> > files.
>
> Somehow your new version of BDb is incompatible with whatever data
> format the old BDB was writing to disk. Max Bowsher might get a better
> idea by looking at your repository.
>
> > Suggestions welcomed. Should I switch over to the 1.1.x branch, as the
> > trunk is in flux? An svn rebuild looks to be necessary at some point.
>
> This has nothing to do with svn's code; everything to do with your
> change of BDB library. :-)

I see. :-(

Running the Debian supplied 'db_*' utilies on some of the files in the
svn repo produce output like this:

$ db4.2_verify nodes
db_verify: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version

Running the versions from my db build produce no output, which I take to
mean the files are fine.

I still have my older Berkeley libraries on the machine, so I'll be
rebuiding Apache and Subversion. Thanks for replying so fast.

Art Haas

-- 
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities
the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
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