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Re: non-existent revisions

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2005-03-14 12:15:32 CET

On Monday 14 March 2005 00:29, Ed Zaron wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have been using subversion for a while (6 mo.) to manage two
> repositories. Recently I updated and started using https access. I
> thought everything was going well, and then ...
>
> Symptom #1 : I issue the command from one of my working copies on a
> remote machine
> svn commit -m "test"
> and no message is returned to standard out, i.e., nothing seems to
> happen. (And the apache2 logs don't indicate any request.)
>
> Symptom #2: I issue the same command from the local machine and I get
> the message:
> Sending user_doc.txt
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/Tako2/!svn/vcc/default'
> svn:
> Reference to non-existent revision 17 in filesystem
> '/Users/Shared/svn/Tako2/db'
>
> I have tried using svnadmin dump and svnadmin load to create a fresh
> repository (followed by svn switch --relocate), but the same error
> message appears. I have also tried svnadmin recover, and that reports:
>
> ezaron% sudo -u www svnadmin recover /Users/Shared/svn/Tako2
> Password:
> Repository lock acquired.
> Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
>
> Recovery completed.
> The latest repos revision is 8.

Here's the problem. The repository thinks it only has 8 revisions in it,
while your working copy has 17. It looks to me like you may have lost
some data (do you have a backup?).

I do have a couple of questions for you though. You appear to be using
BDB as your backend. Which version? The 4.1.x line and earlier had a
series of problems on MacOS X. However, given all the problems that I've
seen in the past with MacOS X and BDB, I'd suggest you avoid BDB
entirely, and use the FSFS backend ('svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs').
It uses basic file system properties to create transactions, and provide
the required atomicity.

-John

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