o.nash@cs.ucc.ie wrote:
> Hi all this might be a little long sorry ..
> Using Subervion 1.3.1 with apache 2.0.58 on linux as main users access
> point.
>
> As an experiment I have the /etc directory as a live working copy that is
> committed weekly with cronjob. Running now for about 8 weeks.
> Last week though postfix was deleted and re-installed i.e. somebody did
> rm -rf /etc/postfix
> The weekly commit then failed with message:-
> ---------------
> un Sep 17 03:20:01 BST 2006
> svn: 'postfix' is not a working copy directory
> svn: Working copy '.' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> details)
> svn: Working copy '/etc' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> details)
> ---------------
>
> Problem is how to unlock the working copy so that the new postfix dir can
> be added or imported?
> ---------------
> # cd /etc
> # svn status | grep L
> L .
>
> # svn cleanup .
> svn: 'postfix' is not a working copy directory
>
> Using the URL method:-
> # svn unlock --force http://hostname:8080/repos/etc
> svn: Failed to fetch lock information: 404 Not Found
> (http://hostname:8080)
>
> There is no lock at the repos end
> svnadmin lslocks repos/path returns nothing.
>
> Do I have to temporarily remove the postfix dir then do the cleanup and
> re-import postfix or add it?
> { I should add this is not a production mail server so would be no problem
> doing above]
>
> thanks
> Oliver
>
Oliver,
when svn cleanup talks about locks, it talks about 'lock' files put in
the .svn area to indicate svn is working on that folder. In this case
cleanup fails to delete the lock files because of that deleted postfix
folder. The first thing you should do is put back the postfix folder,
and then run the cleanup.
I see three possible ways to recover the postfix folder:
Revert the postfix folder:
svn revert postfix
An alternative is to update only that folder, it should normally be
ressurected:
svn update postfix
If none of the above help, you can also checkout the postfix folder
svn checkout postfix
I suppose one of these three actions has worked, so you can now run 'svn
cleanup' on the etc folder.
hope this helps,
Lieven.
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Received on Sun Sep 17 11:41:24 2006