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Re: broken lock test

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:19:12 -0800

On Dec 26, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> Brieuc Jeunhomme wrote on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 at 17:41 +0100:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have found something that looks to me like a bug, although I don't
>> know how I came to this situation. I have more detail about the
>> problem
>> if needed, I can fill a bug report with all of it if it's confirmed
>> it
>> is a bug.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am the only one using the svn repository, on a remote server
>> (svn+ssh://...). I am using 1.5.4. The symptoms are the following: I
>> try to do an update, svn complains about a lock and suggests a
>> cleanup.
>> I perform a cleanup, and try to update again, without any success.
>>
>>
>> % svn update
>>
>> Fetching external item into 'specs'
>> svn: Working copy 'specs' locked
>> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
>> details)
>> % ./build-subversion-1.5.4/bin/svn cleanup
>> % ./build-subversion-1.5.4/bin/svn update
>>
>> Fetching external item into 'specs'
>> svn: Working copy 'specs' locked
>> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
>> details)
>>
>
> Yes, that's obviously a bug --- especially if you can reproduce it
> with
> a new checkout (i.e., it's not something gone broken in that specific
> working copy).
>
> Can you show us how to reproduce this bug, starting with a new
> repository? If possible, package the instructions as a script (e.g.,
> http://svn.tigris.org/repro-template.sh). Thanks.

Fyi, Brieuc opened a ticket on this

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3363

which I closed without seeing this the link back to this thread.

There's two separate issues. One that doing potentially multiple
control-C's to svn can leave the working copy in a locked state. The
code currently catches signals and does the best job to clean up the
wc and leave it in a good state, but you can always kill -9 or
potentially send enough control-C's to kill it and leave the wc in a
locked state.

The other issue is that svn cleanup could be improved to descend into
svn:externals and also clean those up.

So I don't see a bug here, only potentially an improvement to svn
cleanup.

Regards,
Blair

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