subversion 1.1.0 checkin crashes - repo needs recovery

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Hi all,

I have been using svn for quite some time now, it usually works very
nicely for me. thanks for this powerful tool.

I am using version 1.1.0 with a bdb backend.
access method file://
Recently when i tried to check in some changes i got a crash.
backtrace follows:

#0 0x402c5781 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x40247e5e in pthread_kill () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0x40248339 in raise () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3 0x402c6be1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x4009bb72 in begin_trail (trail_p=0xbffff7a4, fs=0x817f0d8,
use_txn=1,
    pool=0x8061f38) at subversion/libsvn_fs_base/trail.c:111
#5 0x4009bd57 in do_retry (fs=0x817f0d8,
    txn_body=0x4009b950 <txn_body_abort_txn>, baton=0x818c290,
use_txn=1,
    pool=0x8061f38, txn_body_fn_name=0x400a5b2d "unknown",
    filename=0x400a5b2c "", line=0) at
subversion/libsvn_fs_base/trail.c:229
#6 0x4009be5a in svn_fs_base__retry_txn (fs=0x817f0d8,
    txn_body=0x4009b950 <txn_body_abort_txn>, baton=0x818c290,
pool=0x8061f38)
    at subversion/libsvn_fs_base/trail.c:291
#7 0x4009b9f8 in svn_fs_base__abort_txn (txn=0x818c290, pool=0x8061f38)
    at subversion/libsvn_fs_base/revs-txns.c:917
#8 0x40073509 in svn_fs_abort_txn (txn=0x818c290, pool=0x8061f38)
    at subversion/libsvn_fs/fs-loader.c:416
#9 0x4006175c in abort_edit (edit_baton=0x817be60, pool=0x8061f38)
    at subversion/libsvn_repos/commit.c:599
#10 0x4001d108 in svn_client_commit (commit_info=0xbffff9b4,
    targets=0x8062e20, nonrecursive=0, ctx=0x80625b8, pool=0x8061f38)
    at subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:1431
#11 0x0804c0c8 in svn_cl__commit (os=0x8061f70, baton=0xbffffa28,
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    pool=0x8061f38) at subversion/clients/cmdline/commit-cmd.c:94
#12 0x0804eecd in main (argc=4, argv=0xbffffca4)
    at subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c:1332

anyways i think the main problem is located at the server, as retrying
shows that the repo is corrupt:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///svn/SVN_DATABASES'
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for
filesystem /svn/SVN_DATABASES/db:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery

svnadmin recover works, but checking in again fails again.

i used this repository, checkout and subversion version for a few days
now, and up to now everything worked flawlessly. (actually this checkin
was done by a script - so it is still done by the same user, the same
way)

unfortunately the data is company data, so i cant make it available.

what should i try next ? any way to check if the server works - and get
a coredump out of it (if it crashes)

greetings

-- 
Martin MAURER <martin.maurer@email.de>