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Re: svn 1.1.0rc2: Reproducible DB problem

From: Sander Rijken <sr_at_sander.yi.org>
Date: 2004-09-12 12:54:33 CEST

What version of BDB is svn linked against?
(ldd `which svn` | grep libdb)

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:23, Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to convert a CVS repository to svn with cvs2svn and get a
> reproducible DB error during this process. The CVS repository contains
> one main project and some related subprojects (plugins), which I want to
> organize as follows:
>
> /home/svn/repos/rep/ -- repository
> /main -- main project
> /plugins -- subprojects
> /plugins/plugin_1 -- subproject 1
> ...
> /plugins/plugin_n -- subproject n
>
> The conversion process uses the following steps:
>
> 1. Create the repository /home/svn/repos/rep/
> 2. Check it out
> 3. Create the project structure (empty subdirs) in the working copy
> 4. Check in project structure.
>
> 5. For the main project, I do
> cvs2svn --encoding=latin1 --dump-only --dumpfile=main.svn $CVSROOT/main
> svnadmin load --parent-dir main /home/svn/repos/rep <main.svn
>
> 6. For each plugin P I do
> cvs2svn --encoding=latin1 --dump-only --dumpfile=$P.svn $CVSROOT/$P
> svnadmin load --parent-dir plugins/$P /home/svn/repos/rep <$P.svn
>
> After step 5 I have a corrupt data base. If I try to check out, I get
>
> -bash(15)svn co file:///home/svn/repos/rep
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn/repos/rep'
> svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
> /home/svn/repos/rep/db:
> DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
> svn: bdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>
> db_recover gives:
> -bash(16)db_recover -vh /home/svn/repos/rep/db
> db_recover: Finding last valid log LSN: file: 11 offset 625487
> db_recover: Recovery starting from [1][28]
> db_recover: Recovery complete at Sun Sep 12 09:52:11 2004
> db_recover: Maximum transaction ID 800025ea Recovery checkpoint [11][625487]
> db_recover: Recovery complete at Sun Sep 12 09:52:11 2004
> db_recover: Maximum transaction id 80000000 Recovery checkpoint [11][625487]
>
> After the recovery, the DB seems to be in a usable state, I can check
> out without error and the working copy seems to be OK.
>
> What can the problem be? Can it even be related to cvs2svn? A search on
> this list didn't give me a hint.
>
> I ran a cross check with fsfs file system, which worked without problems.
>
> The error happens with both 1.1.0rc2 and a svn build from svn repository
> as of last thursday.
>
> The repository is on a Linux box, Kernel 2.6.7 and Reiser FS.
>
> Any hint appreciated.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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Received on Sun Sep 12 12:55:28 2004

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