Re: How to recover from "Found malformed header in revision file"?

On 26 February 2010 08:12, Steven Roussey <sroussey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> How to recover from "Found malformed header in revision file"?
>
>> svn commit myfile
> Sending        myfile
> Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Corrupt node-revision '0-484.0-123.r993/92'
> svn: Found malformed header in revision file
>
>
> So I tried create a dump file:
>> svnadmin dump /site/svn/ > dumpsvn
> * Dumped revision 0.
> ...
> * Dumped revision 987.
> svnadmin: Corrupt representation '988 0 8767 8749
> 17d4a0cc3e480c0c64dd8107a1854b7f'
> svnadmin: Malformed representation header
>
> So it started a long long time ago... :(
>
>> svn --version
> svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
>   compiled Aug  7 2009, 01:15:13
>
> This the version of svn from ubuntu for whatever version is running on
> that machine.
>
> If a dump of the repo doesn't work, what next???

Try svnadmin recover.

But this is very much a server issue so you need to ask for help on
the users_at_subversion list instead.

Simon

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