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Re: Error: Can't set position pointer [...] : An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:56:45 -0400

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:13, newdaddy <chrisrose.chrisrose_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have Tortoise SVN running on some windows virtual servers.  I can check
> out, check in, etc. successfully.  However when I attempt to look at the
> checkin log, or view the revision graph, I get an error that looks like ;
>
> Can't set position pointer in file 'C:\svn_repository\XXX\db\revs\0\955': An
> attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file.
>
> I'm somewhat of a novice user and don't have much of a clue as how to
> proceed to debug this.  I think a colleague has been able to demonstrate
> this same issue with his client running on WinXP on his desktop machine
> (rather than a virtual server).  I know the machine the svn server itself is
> running on has been rebooted earlier today and that hasn't solved the issue.
>
> Any suggestions would be sincerely appreciated -

This is a server error (backed up by the fact that it is happening for
multiple clients), so you really need to be looking to the Subversion
Users mailing list. Tortoise is but a client.

Short version: Looking at http://markmail.org/message/ldx5u5443pvzb7sy
(first hit for the error message relating to Subversion), you may have
some disk corruption.

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