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Re: Berkeley DB corruption - 'changes' table (again)

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-10-02 19:36:52 CEST

When the person ran 'svnadmin recover', did they observe the cautions
mentioned in

   http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#wedged-repos

... especially the part about shutting off Apache and any other
process that might conceivably access the repository?

-Karl

"Paul L. Suh" <psuh@apple.com> writes:
> Folks,
>
> Subversion 0.24.2 (Yes I know it's old, we're planning on updating to
> 0.30 in 2 days, just as soon as the current project phase
> finishes. Curse you, Murphy!) We're getting the error:
>
> "Berkeley DB error while opening `copies' table for filesystem
> /Library/Repository/MacOSXTroubleshooting/db: Invalid argument "
>
> Three questions:
>
> 1) Is there any way to recover? (Not a screaming necessity since we
> have daily backups, but there were a goodly number of commits
> yesterday since we're getting close to a release.)
>
> 2) Have there been any changes in the BDB table structure in more
> recent versions that would make this problem unlikely to happen?
>
> 3) Is there an Issue Tracker entry for this? I looked but couldn't
> find one.
>
> Additional detail follows.
>
>
> --Paul
>
> Paul L. Suh
> Trainer/Curriculum Developer
> Apple Computer
> 1892 Preston White Drive
> Reston, VA 20191
>
> (703) 264-3216
> http://train.apple.com/
>
>
> Original error e-mail from user:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any idea how to fix this?
> >
> > A little while ago, svn failed due to a full disk on
> > my machine:
> >
> > [da0703a-dhcp110:Current/Production_Materials/Guide]
> > ellend% svn update 09_FileInternetShareing.fm
> > Restored 09_FileInternetShareing.fm
> > subversion/libsvn_wc/log.c:294: (apr_err=155009)
> > svn: Problem running log
> > svn: in directory ''
> > subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:216: (apr_err=28)
> > svn: No space left on device
> > svn: svn_io_copy_file: error copying
> > '.svn/tmp/text-base/09_FileInternetShareing.fm.svn-base'
> > to '09_FileInternetShareing.fm.tmp'
> >
> > I emptied my trash to free up space.
> >
> > Now, when I try to check in a file I get this:
> >
> > [da0703a-dhcp110:HDEssentials/Current/Production_Materials]
> > ellend% svn ci Guide/09_FileInternetShareing.fm
> > subversion/libsvn_wc/lock.c:116: (apr_err=155004)
> > svn: Attempted to lock an already-locked dir
> > svn: working copy locked:
> > /Users/ellend/Desktop/HDEssentials/Current/Production_Materials/Guide
> > svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help
> > cleanup' for details)
> >
> > So then I try to run svn cleanup, and I get this:
> >
> > [da0703a-dhcp110:HDEssentials/Current/Production_Materials]
> > ellend% svn cleanup
> > subversion/libsvn_wc/log.c:294: (apr_err=155009)
> > svn: Problem running log
> > svn: in directory 'Guide'
> > subversion/libsvn_wc/log.c:1145: (apr_err=155009)
> > svn: start_handler: error processing command
> > 'modify-entry' in 'Guide'
> > subversion/libsvn_wc/log.c:487: (apr_err=155009)
> > svn: error getting file affected time on
> > `Guide/.svn/props/09_FileInternetShareing.fm'
>
>
> svnadmin recover produces:
>
> Acquiring exclusive lock on repository db.
> Recovery is running, please stand by...
> Recovery completed.
> subversion/libsvn_fs/bdb/bdb-err.c:61: (apr_err=160029)
> svn: Berkeley DB error
> svn: Berkeley DB error while opening `copies' table for filesystem
> /Volumes/data/Repository/MacOSXTroubleshooting/db:
> Invalid argument
>
> Doing a direct db_recover results in:
>
> sudo /opt/BerkeleyDB.4.1/bin/db_recover -v
> db_recover: Finding last valid log LSN: file: 4311 offset 581049
> db_recover: Recovery starting from [4311][578974]
> db_recover: Recovery complete at Thu Oct 2 08:30:57 2003
> db_recover: Maximum transaction ID 8000000b Recovery checkpoint
> [4311][581049]
> db_recover: Recovery complete at Thu Oct 2 08:30:57 2003
> db_recover: Maximum transaction id 80000000 Recovery checkpoint
> [4311][581049]
>
> But svnadmin recover after that still produces the same problem.
>
> Systems involved are Mac OS X 10.2.6 on client and server, I built the
> entire 0.24.2 tarball from source, Berkeley DB 4.1.25, httpd 2.0.46
> custom built from source, all access via http.
>
>
>
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