On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> o.nash@cs.ucc.ie wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > > > svn: cleanup' for
> > > > details)
> > > > svn: Working copy '/etc' locked
> > > > svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help
> > > > svn: 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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> > >
> > Lieven
> > thanks for the swift reponse,
> > the checkout and all other attempts seem to fail because the etc dir
> > working copy is locked so no checkout or any other svn cmd can modify
> > inside it.
> > # svn checkout http://hostname:8080/repos/path/etc/postfix
> > svn: Working copy '.' locked
> > svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> > details)
> >
> You should specificy the target folder as well if your cwd = /etc:
>
> svn checkout http://hostname:8080/repos/path/etc/postfix postfix
>
> If that still doesn't work, can you try to checkout that folder somewhere else
> on your disk (not in an svn working copy), then copy the folder to /etc
> followed by 'svn cleanup'?
>
> Alternatively, if that doesn't work, you can also try a hack by removing all
> 'lock' files in the .svn folders, then do that checkout and run 'svn cleanup'.
>
> Lieven.
>
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Lieven,
Fixed that thanks, I was closing in on the solution you suggested.
I did checkout of postfix to /tmp/postfix
cp -R .svn from that to /etc/postfix
svn cleanup etc/postfix
svn cleanup etc
all went without error
now for a checkin
thanks for all your help
--
Oliver Nash
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Received on Sun Sep 17 12:25:57 2006