Re: Repo "broken"

Robert Roessler wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Robert Roessler wrote:
>>
>>>> Seems you're using the BDB repository format. That isn't supported
>>>> anymore in TSVN 1.6 (see the release notes).
>>>> You have to convert your repository to FSFS format if you want to keep
>>>> accessing it via file:///
>>> But no, I have *never* [knowingly] set up a repo to use BDB - even my
>>> very first one, which this isn't... if it helps, the .svn file tree in
>>> the repo and WC appears substantially the same as all the other working
>>> repos.
>>>
>>> If I need one, is there some definitive test for examining the file
>>> trees of a repo or WC to determine its "format"?
>>>
>> In the db folder inside the repository is a file named fs-type. Open it
>> with a text editor. It contains either "FSFS" or "BDB".
>>
>> If you're using FSFS, try running 'svnadmin recover' on it.
>
> As expected (by me, anyway ;) ), my afflicted repo is indeed FSFS...
> which makes sense, since I create all of them using the same procedure
> and folder-tree template.
>
> In any case, svnadmin recover gives the same error as the repo browser:
>
> "Can't open file '...\db\min-unpacked-rev': The system cannot find the
> file specified"
>
> However, I notice that none of my other repos contains such a file -
> whatever that means.
>
> BUT, this repo is the only one that contains a "rep-cache.db" file.
>
> Finally, I note that 4 out of my 6 repos contain a ".../db/format" file
> that looks like this:
>
> 3
> layout linear
>
> While 2 of 6 repos (1 working fine, and this messed-up one) have
>
> 4
> layout sharded 1000
>
> Is there anything else I can check? Any theories as to how this
> happened? Could it have been a failed attempt at auto-updating the repo
> format with a new client version?

If 'svnadmin recover' also throws an error, that's not a good sign. You
might have to get the repo back from a backup.
Try 'svnadmin dump /path/to/repo > dump.dmp'
and then load it into a new repo.

If that doesn't work either, you have to use a backup (or as on the
Subversion list for help).

Stefan

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