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Re: My first hung repository

From: Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2004-08-25 07:04:51 CEST

On Aug 24, 2004, at 11:29 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Fifty minutes and counting. You know, I somehow think this recovery
> is going to fail.

I'll ignore your offensive and condescending prose and point out that
your recovery will *never* finish if another process has a lock on the
repository--svnadmin is just waiting for someone else to release the
lock so it can take out its own write lock.

See: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch05s03.html#svn-ch-5-sect-3.4

Specifically

        1. Make sure that there are no processes accessing
       (or attempting to access) the repository. For
       networked repositories, this means shutting down
       the Apache HTTP Server, too.

Of course, if you're using svn+ssh, you may have to kill an svnserve or
ssh process instead of an HTTP process--you need to kill the other
processes that have a lock on the repository

As for the interface, yes, it's a known issue--in fact I was discussing
possible solutions to this with Karl and CMike today. I've always
hated having to recover at all, and I've been using fsfs at home for
the last month with much happiness all around.

-Fitz

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