Re: ra_serf: An error occourred during decompression

On 03.11.2014 17:25, Gunter Koenigsmann wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have a big (several Gigabytes large) repository that I cannot check
> out or update any more without downgrading my system a lot and upgrading
> again later: svn versions > 1.7.0 return ra_serf: An error occourred
> during decompression at random places inside it. The result ist that the
> working copy is locked and a cleanup normally results in a repository
> tortoisesvn no more recognizes as being one.
>
> What I already did was to ask our IT department to deactivate the
> deflate compression of our apache. I was convinced that this would
> resolve the problem since ra_serf is a http access library. Seems like I
> was wrong this time. In the issue tracker of serf I found:
> https://code.google.com/p/serf/issues/detail?id=152 Don't know if
> that might be the problem, though.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot share the repositorie's contents with the
> outside world. But I am willing to run several tests to track the
> problem down. What can I do?
> I have already tested the last nightly build and it still shows the
> problem;
>
> If I downgrade tsvn on a system, then upgrade it (and the working copy)
> step by step - upgrading from a new revision to another new revision
> seems to work well. But if I upgrade to old revisions I have a chance of
> running into the problem again that increases the older the revision is.
> Might just be that older revisions mean more data and therefore a higher
> probability to trigger the error and therefore a false-positive.
>
> What I also can tell is that I use https to transfer the repository and
> that I do this without having any proxy between me and the server.

Try a nightly build.
http://nightlybuilds.tortoisesvn.net/1.8.x/
it's linked with serf 1.3.8 which has the issue 152 fixed.

If that doesn't help, then at least we know that it's not that issue
that's at fault.

Stefan

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