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Re: The Big Lie : if (info->r->method_number == M_LOCK) BUG?

From: Pauli V <pauli.s.t.vaahterametsa_at_jyu.fi>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:18:43 +0200 (EET)

Okay, the issue has been reported:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3515

Pauli

> [Returning the discussion to the devlist where it belongs.]
>
> Thanks for the info. It's been a while since I worked on our WebDAV
> autoversioning logic. I *definitely* don't have a new enough version of
> Web
> Folders available. (My personal boxen still run Win2k!) I think you've
> given me enough reason to believe there's a real problem to be researched
> here, so please feel free to file an issue in our issue tracker regarding
> this problem (at http://subversion.tigris.org/issue-tracker.html).
>
> I trust that by "you may receive", you mean "you, the dev-list, may
> receive". You might not always get immediate response from the dev-list,
> but the beauty of a mailing list is that your information is maintained
> indefinitely for future archaeological benefit. Many of us flag incoming
> mails for processing later, as there's always the chance that someone else
> can spend the time to respond right now even if we really can't.
>
>
> Pauli Vaahterametsä wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes. The default lock timeout is 3 minutes and in about 2 minutes Word
>> will try to refresh the lock and fail, and the open document will change
>> into a read only mode.
>>
>> Of course you should have a recent (12.x, Rosebud) version of Web
>> Folders
>> installed before trying to use MS Office for any real WebDAV debugging
>> operations. The problem should exist also with earlier versions though,
>> as
>> I see it as a server side problem.
>>
>> If you have difficulties reproducing the problem I can provide all
>> information you need. I'm running the server on a Win32 platform.
>>
>> (Btw, now that I've gotten a communication contact to someone there, you
>> may receive many other bug reports in the future. :-) )
>>
>> Pauli
>>
>>> Pauli, is reproducing the problem you are seeing as simple as, say,
>>> opening
>>> a Word document directly from a Subversion DAV share and letting it sit
>>> for
>>> some amount of time greater than the originally request lock timeout
>>> value?
>>>
>>> Pauli Ojanperä wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> I was investigating a Subversion locking bug reported here:
>>>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-07/0169.shtml
>>>>
>>>> My own experience of the bug tells that any tries of a MS Office
>>>> application
>>>> to refresh its lock do fail. By running "svnadmin lslocks repo" we can
>>>> confirm that the initial locking succeeds. However, mod_dav is not
>>>> getting
>>>> the information of the lock token's existence, and fails on the "If:"
>>>> precondition manifested in the lock refresh request header.
>>>>
>>>> Apache logs say:
>>>> Could not LOCK /repo/nnn.txt due to a failed precondition (e.g. other
>>>> locks). [412, #0]
>>>> The precondition(s) specified by the "If:" header did not match this
>>>> resource. At least one failure is because: a State-token was supplied,
>>>> but
>>>> it was not found in the locks on this resource. [412, #0]
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that the commit linked below causes mod_dav_svn to be
>>>> unable to confirm the precondition (the existence of a locktoken) to
>>>> continue fulfilling a lock refresh request.
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/lock.c?r1=19508&r2=19509&
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Pauli
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
>>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On
>>> Demand
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>
>

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