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Re: svn_client operations start failing - unable to resolve host name

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:14:15 +0200

Robert Turner wrote on Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 19:49:35 +0000:
> I'm in the process of making some updates to a FUSE svnfs, and while the process is merrily chugging away pulling file information, it starts getting lots of errors from the svn_client commands (not just the one below, but that's an example):
>
> DEBUG : [00] svnclient_cache(): svn_client_cat(), err->message='OPTIONS of '<<<pathname removed>>>': Could not resolve hostname `<<<host name removed>>>': Host not found (<<<host name removed>>>)' err->apr_err=175002,0x2ab9a 'RA layer request failed'
>
> There is nothing of note configured related to proxies, or anything. As mentioned above, the operations are performing correctly for a while, then stop, and no further operations succeed until the process exits and is restarted. My process seems to behaving well from a memory perspective, and static analysis tools are coming up clean.
>
> I'm suspecting that something is getting confused in the internal state of the SVN client libraries.
>

And I'm suspecting your C library DNS resolver function is returning an
error. Have you ruled that out yet?

> Any suggestions on where to look further, or what might be the problem?
>
>
>
> (I'm using the 1.6.18 client libraries from wanDisco, compiled for OSX -- I have been unable to get locally compiled and working copies of the SVN libraries myself when trying to compile from source, so I have no easy way to debug through the SVN libraries)
>
> Thanks for any ideas anyone might have,
>
> Robert
Received on 2012-11-27 15:14:51 CET

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