Re: Tortoise locks up server, cmdline svn does not

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:27, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
<buanzo_at_buanzo.com.ar> wrote:
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> Replying and forwarding. Sorry I don't edit, it's for the sake of
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> Simon Large wrote:
> | 2008/6/25 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo_at_buanzo.com.ar>:
> |> Hi group!
> |>
> |> I've found a weird behaviour. First, let me describe my platform:
> |>
> |> * An ubuntu server 64bit virtual machine in Vmware Server (Ubuntu Host).
> The
> |> repository is on an
> |> external iSCSI SAN disk, mounted on /srv/svn. (The SAN and LAN networks
> are
> |> physically distinct ones).
> |>
> |> * Windows clients using tortoisesvn.
> |>
> |> This setup has been working without issues at ALL for the past two weeks
> |> (since it was implemented).
> |>
> |> Yesterday night, a developer released a bunch of locks, and the next time
> he
> |> attempted to browse the
> |> repository, vmware shouts an "I/O error" on the SAN iSCSI device. From
> then
> |> on, only an "Abort",
> |> then a reboot can get the svn server up and running.
> |>
> |> So, I made a full test of every element involved:
> |> * SAN disk was OK, I could read/write data without issues. I even ran,
> from
> |> within the VM guest, an
> |> ext2fs -c. No issues.
> |> * I upgraded all software elements: tortoisesvn, ubuntu guest (except for
> |> vmware-server, which was
> |> already 1.0.5 [i know there's 1.0.6, but the changelog shows nothing
> |> related).
> |>
> |> Then I started active testing:
> |>
> |> * run "svn checkout svn://127.0.0.1/same_project" using the root shell
> |> account on the svn server. It
> |> works, no vmware warning window.
> |> * run "svn checkout svn://10.100.4.55/same_project". Same as before, but
> |> using the NIC.
> |> * run "svn checkout svn://10.100.4.55/same_project" but from another
> linux
> |> machine in the network.
> |> No issues!
> |> * I asked a windows-workstationed developer to download the command-line
> |> subversion binaries, and do
> |> ~ the same checkout from the same windows machine. It WORKS.
> |>
> |> I asked them to test tortoise and BANG, vmware warning. The same warning
> is
> |> triggered when using
> |> tortoisesvn from any other windows computer.
> |>
> |> I'm think this has to do with some packet size, data transfer,
> |> tortoisesvn-thing while interacting
> |> with a SAN disk (which, again, if I access using standard subversion
> client,
> |> never crashes).
> |>
> |> So, to test that theory, I added a standard virtual disk to the guest (a
> |> local file on the vm HOST,
> |> not an iSCSI exported lun), rsynced the data from the SAN partition to
> the
> |> new virtual partition...
> |> restarted svn on that new mount point... and tortoisesvn works. no
> crashes.
> |>
> |> Anyone has ANY idea why it might be falling? May I have hit a bug for
> this
> |> kind of scenario? Is
> |> there any other list I should be cross-posting to? My googling keywords
> |> involve iscsi, subversion,
> |> vmware, etc. Nothing interesting appears. So, if you can provide any
> |> ideas...! :)
> |
> | Since you're using svn:// the data is accessed using the svn server,
> | not the client, and no client should be able to crash a server.
>
> No, it shouldn't, but it does happen.
>
> tortoisesvn + data on SAN disk = crash
> subversion + data on SAN disk = NO crash
> subversion + data on vmdk disk = NO crash
> tortoisesvn + data on vmdk disk = NO crash
>
> We have two variables (client and location of data). I'm attempting to
> figure out where the issue
> might be. Maybe it's a vmware bug, I don't know, but I rather start the
> bug-catching with tortoise
> and svn.
>
> | Try asking on the subversion users list (users <at>
> | subversion.tigris.org).
>
> Done, subscribed and CCed.
>
> | BTW did you use 1.5.0 subversion Windows binaries for your comparative
> test?
>
> Yes, in Windows.

Are you sure? You have to run
svn --version
to make sure that the 1.5 client was actually used and not an older
one still in PATH.

Also, from where did you get the 1.5 CL binaries?

Stefan

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