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Re: [TSVN] TSVN explorer deadlock

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2005-03-20 13:02:40 CET

Jan Kuznik wrote:
> Several times a day TSVN causes my explorer to deadlock. The affected
> window gets unresponsive, the rest of explorer works until navigating to
> the same directory. Then again deadlock. One has to kill the explorer.
> This happens randomly at every possible occasion. Especially risky is
> TSVN-Add, or browsing while compiling (heavy load). If SVN operation
> causes deadlock, it finished properly, no need to repeat it after starting
> fresh explorer.
>
> I started to experience this problem after upgrading TSVN from 1.1.2 to
> 1.1.3. It's reversible. I am now using 1.1.2 back again and everything is
> OK.
>
> Using patched English windows 2000, Czech default locale. I always run two
> copies of explorer simultaneously on two different window stations. The
> deadlock is independent. One can browse to the "affected" directory with
> the second explorer, while the first one is stuck.

You should configure your virus scanner to exclude the .svn dirs in your
working copy. Otherwise (depending on what scanner you're using, some of
them behave really bad!) you'll get such locks because the scanner will
lock a file which Subversion needs.

Stefan

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