Marc,
You could at least dump the rest of the repository using -r!
You'd only lose one revision.
-- Jan Evert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Haisenko [SMTP:haisenko@webport.de]
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Rescuing a repository
>
> Hi folks,
> we have a big repository (strings file is 3.1GB) on a RAID 5. Problem is,
> I
> can't dump the repository, I always get a checksum mismatch in revision
> 336.
> And it seems the latest revision has the same problem as well.
>
> The system is a SuSE 8.2 with BDB 4.0.14, running SubVersion 0.37 (sic). I
>
> yesterday and today tried to rescue the repository with with SubVersion
> 1.0.2
> linked against BDB 4.1.25, and SubVersion 1.0.2 linked against BDB 4.2.52,
>
> but everything failed.
>
> First, I made a copy the repository so I can't mess up the original. I
> then
> ran SVN 0.37/BDB 4.0.14 'svnadmin recover /export/rescue', which after
> several minutes said "Input/output error" (note that despite the path this
> is
> not a NFS directory). I then copied the copy to check whether there is a
> problem with the RAID or something, but the copy went smooth. A fsck also
> went without problems.
>
> I then ran 'svnadmin dump /export/rescue', and everything went fine until
> it
> reached revision 336 where a checksum mismatch was reported. Repeatedly
> running the dump always yields the exact same checksum mismatch (always
> the
> same checksums).
>
> I suspected a defect RAM, installed Memtest86 and ran it but after letting
> it
> run through the night no defective RAM was found.
>
> Then today I downloaded BDB 4.1.25 and SVN 1.0.2, and compiled/linked SVN
> 1.0.2 against the BDB 4.1.25. Results are the very same as with SVN
> 0.37/BDB
> 4.0.14
>
> I then also downloaded BDB 4.2.52, linked another SVN 1.0.2 against it an
> ran
> its 'svnadmin recover'... this time the recover came back almost
> immediately,
> reporting the correct current revision number (r506). But the dump still
> doesn't work.
>
> What's also interesting is that when trying to dump the revision 336 I get
>
> different checksums for SVN 0.37 and SVN 1.0.2
>
> SVN 0.37/BDB 4.0.14:
> svn: Checksum mismatch on rep '4pi':
> expected: fe339b5a4133f58051f1f15380f46413
> actual: 4d21ea0c68cdde21698bc99e86eab179
>
> SVN 1.0.2/BDB 4.1.25:
> svn: Checksum mismatch on rep '4pi':
> expected: fe339b5a4133f58051f1f15380f46413
> actual: 7fc67fdbf244751f68f229270c97c3de
>
> SVN 1.0.2/BDB 4.2.52:
> svn: Checksum mismatch on rep '4pi':
> expected: fe339b5a4133f58051f1f15380f46413
> actual: 7fc67fdbf244751f68f229270c97c3de
>
> I also tried experimenting with 'db_recover' but the 4.0.14 and 4.1.25
> versions both yield the 'Input/output error'. And the 4.2.52 'db_recover'
> returns immediately, no output whatsoever.
>
> It's very important to get that repository up and running again as my boss
> is
> fed up with SubVersion and will force me to ditch it if I can't get it
> running again... the repository contains our main products.
>
> So can anyone hint me what else I might try ? Or if nothing else works,
> how I
> could possible try to fix that transaction by hand (I don't fear binary
> editors ;-)
>
> Thnx in advance,
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Haisenko
> Systemspezialist
> Webport IT-Services GmbH
> mailto: haisenko@webport.de
>
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