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Re: Cannot get shared lock on db.lock on Fedora Core 4 and SVN 1.2

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-07-11 15:17:19 CEST

See the 2nd half of this FAQ: http://subversion.tigris.org/
faq.html#reposperms

On Jul 11, 2005, at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Aston wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Further to my previous note regarding transfering repos from Win XP
> to Linux and migrating from BDB on 1.1.4 to FSFS on 1.2 I have made
> some progress (thanks to the ppl who responded previously btw).
> The repos were dumped from XP/1.1.4/BDB and loaded in FC4/1.2/FSFS
> without any apparent problem. I have configured Apache to access
> the repos and here I have hit a brick wall.
>
> Apache fails when trying to list the repo contents or checking out
> with a http URL. The error is:
>
> (20014)Error string not specified yet: Can't get shared lock on
> file '/usr/local/svn/repos/reponame/locks/db.lock': Resource
> temporarily unavailable
>
> Permissions wise I have set up a svn user and group. The svn user
> owns the tree of svn and below with rw perms. The svn group has rw
> perms on the same tree. The apache user (which the httpd deamon
> runs under) is also a member of the svn group.
>
> I have removed all access restrictions to the repos in the
> httpd.conf settings.
>
> I have also tried setting apache up to be in the root group, giving
> a+rwx to the svn tree, chown the group and owner to the apache user
> etc - all to no avail.
>
> No joy...
>
> I did notice that httpd.conf was pointing to the mod_svn_dav and
> other modules in module/modulename but the rpms were deploying
> into /usr/lib/httpd/modules/modulename so I have updated httpd.conf
> accordingly. I am now pretty stuck. I have searched the list but
> not found anything that has got me any further.
>
> Is there a way of checked the version of svn I am running just so I
> know I am not going mad and running 1.1.4 or something stupid.
>
> I am sure it must be something stupid on my part and I am now at
> the stage where I am happy for my stupidity to be discussed in
> open :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Rgds
>
> Jeremy
>
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