Re: seemingly corrupt db?

On 19 Nov 2004 20:13:42 -0600, kfogel@collab.net <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:
> Geoff Smith <geoffrey.smith@nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> > >Did someone maybe upgrade Berkeley DB shared libraries on that system,
> > >after you installed Subversion?
> >
> > Not that I know of, unless I did it by mistake. I did do an OS
> > update, but don't know if that updated the DB libs. Is there a good
> > way to check the versions?
>
> An OS upgrade will often upgrade BDB, yeah. You could look at
> /usr/include/db.h (assuming that's where Berkeley's headers are) and
> poke around for something like this:
>
> /*
> * Berkeley DB version information.
> */
> #define DB_VERSION_MAJOR 4
> #define DB_VERSION_MINOR 2
> #define DB_VERSION_PATCH 50
> #define DB_VERSION_STRING "Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.50: (November 20, 2003)"
>
> As for solutions: I'm not sure, but if you could compile a Subversion
> statically against the old libs, you could run 'svnadmin dump' on the
> repository, save the dumpfile, recreate the repository with a newly
> compiled Subversion, and load it? I'm winging it here, though.

I remember reading on these lists somewhere that you can delete the
__db.* files and db_recover it, and it'll be accessible from the new
version. I'd do it on a copy though, and dump/reload after if it
works.

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