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Resend: .svn/entries getting locked on OSX somehow.

From: Brad Cox <bcox_at_virtualschool.edu>
Date: 2006-02-06 19:22:15 CET

Resending. Any suggestions out there? Is this getting thru?

Brad Cox wrote:
> After having been away from subversion for a year or so, I've started
> encountering severe problems getting back in the saddle on Mac OSX.
> Namely, nearly everything I do to a working copy leads to a broken
> (locked) repository as shown below:
>
> bcox$ svn status
> ...looks OK, but...
>
> bcox$ svn ci
> subversion/libsvn_wc/lock.c:158: (apr_err=155004)
> svn: Working copy
> '/Users/bcox/Projects/workspace.binary/binary-gar-convoy2' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> details)
>
> ...OK, if you say so...
>
> bcox$ svn cleanup
> subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:2416: (apr_err=1)
> svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries': Operation not
> permitted
>
> Permissions problem?
> bcox$ ls -l .svn
> -r--r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 118 Feb 5 14:06 README.txt
> -r--r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 75 Feb 5 14:06 dir-wcprops
> -r--r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 0 Feb 5 14:06 empty-file
> -r--r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 9556 Feb 5 14:06 entries
> -r--r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 2 Feb 5 14:06 format
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bcox bcox 0 Feb 5 14:06 lock
> drwxr-xr-x 35 bcox bcox 1190 Feb 5 14:06 prop-base
> drwxr-xr-x 35 bcox bcox 1190 Feb 5 14:06 props
> drwxr-xr-x 35 bcox bcox 1190 Feb 5 14:06 text-base
> drwxr-xr-x 4 bcox bcox 136 Feb 5 16:22 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 35 bcox bcox 1190 Feb 5 14:06 wcprops
>
> The real problem seems to be that .svn/entries is somehow actually
> locked (via OSX chflags), not just write protected as I at first suspected.
>
> Its not clear who's doing this (svn? eclipse?), but svn seems the most
> likely culprit at this point.
>
> I'm using http: access method via apache2 installed on port 18080.
> Checkouts work fine, as is the repo itself. Initial working copies are
> fine, but go south after one or more changes.
>
> I've tried several SVN GUI's (subclipse, isvn, simplesvn, etc) which I
> thought might have been responsible. But the above example was a fresh
> working copy accessed only by the svn client, version 1.3.0 r17949.
>
> Can someone please advise? Subversion is pretty much unusable at this
> point.
>
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Received on Mon Feb 6 19:24:42 2006

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