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Re: Core dump checking out large repositories

From: SmartServ Hosting <jeremy_at_smart-serv.net>
Date: 2005-01-22 18:30:59 CET

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:20:56 -0600
Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:

>
> On Jan 22, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:39:00PM -0700, SmartServ Hosting wrote:
> >> %uname -rs
> >> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
> >> %du -sh /svnroot
> >> 7.5M /svnroot/
> >>
> >> Subversion: 1.1.1
> >>
> >> %svn co file:///svnroot/trunk
> >> [some files checkout/not all files]
> >> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >> %
> >>
> >> backtrace:
> >> (gdb) bt full
> >> #0 0x280d97f3 in update_entry (b=Cannot access memory at address
> >> 0xbfad1d98
> >> ) at subversion/libsvn_repos/reporter.c:589
> >> s_root = (svn_fs_root_t *) Cannot access memory at address
> >> 0xbfad1ddc
> >
> > This is exactly the same problem that I am seeing, on FreeBSD-CURRENT.
> > Although I'm accessing over webdav. Now that I try it using a file:///
> > url, it goes wrong too. Which is odd, because when I tried it, it
> > didn't fail...
>
> Here's a question: is there any chance the the freebsd port is using
> APR 1.0, rather than 0.9.5?
>
> Either of those versions of APR will work with Subversion, though
> Subversion technically only claims to use 0.9.5. But the problem is
> that the two versions of APR are binary-incompatible. I've seen a lot
> of strange svn bugs lately, and many of them happen when somebody was
> using Subversion with APR 0.9.5, then quietly (or unintentionally)
> upgrades to APR 1.0.
>
> In other words, it's safe to *start* using Subversion for the first
> time with either APR 0.9.5 or 1.0. But it's not safe to switch horses
> mid-stream.
> (
>
Subersion was compiled with APR 1.0 before any repositories were created.

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