The company I work for is currently investigating large-scale migration from
VSS to SVN. In the process of our investigations, we have developed custom
tools to migrate our old VSS repositories to SVN.
Yesterday, during test runs against our test repository, we once again ended
up completely locking the test repository. Previously (20 Feb), we had a
similar problem and I (incorrectly) assumed that the repository was
corrupted, since both svnadmin and svnlook would simply hang when trying to
access the repository. Posts to the svn users mailing list indicated that
the repository wasn't corrupted, but merely locked.
Back in the same situation again, I checked to ensure that there were no
hung processes that might have a lock on the repository. Checks on the
Apache logs (access_log and error_log) reveal that nothing unusual has
occurred as far as Apache is concerned. Each svn commit seems to start with
a MKACTIVITY, and ends with a corresponding DELETE entry in the lock. In
short, it doesn't appear as though anything went wrong on Apache's side.
After again checking for hung processes that might still be accessing the
repository, I tried 'svnadmin recover' and 'svnlook info' again, to no
avail. They simply hung, requiring a 'kill -9' to stop them.
Finally, I tried 'strace svnlook info ./TestRepos' to see what might be
causing the hang, and surprisingly when run via strace, 'svnlook info'
completes successfully. Subsequent runs of 'svnlook info' also complete
successfully. This is the same situation that occurred on the 20th Feb (see
the message-list archives at
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users
<http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=6173>
&msgNo=6173).
The vss migration-tool developers mentioned that they were browsing the
working copy whilst the migration process was in place when the hang
occurred. They have TortoiseSVN installed, and we are wondering if there
isn't some kind of interplay between the SVN command-line client (being used
to do the vss-to-svn migration) and TortoiseSVN.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for things to investigate I'd love to
hear them.
For reference sake, our server config is:
- RedHat Linux 9
- Kernel 2.4.20-8
- subversion-0.37.0-1
- subversion-server-0.37.0-1
- subversion-tools-0.37.0-1
- apr-0.9.5-0.2
- neon-0.24.4-1
- httpd-2.0.48-3
- 256MB RAM
I have purposely held off updating to svn 1.0 since posts to the mailing
list indicate that nothing of consequence has changed from 0.37 to 1.0.
Regards,
Stuart.
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Received on Fri Mar 12 03:38:25 2004