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Re: Repository left in unusable state?

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-05-30 15:47:02 CEST

On 5/28/07, Sidney Cadot <sidney.cadot@jigsaw.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This afternoon I ran out of disk space during a big commit (>100 MB worth of
> binary files).
>
> I have cleared out plenty of disk space now on the server, but it seems that
> the affected FSFS repository is left in a weird state. Whenever I try to do
> even small commits, I get the following:
>
> =====
>
> $ svn commit build-all.sh -m "Added build-all.sh script."
> Adding build-all.sh
> Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Cannot write to the prototype revision file of transaction '53-1'
> because a previous representation is currently being written by this process
>
> =====
>
> Plase note that this is a rather unhelpful message - perhaps understandable
> to the developer who wrote the code that emits it, but not to a user such as
> myself. What is "a representation" ? What is "this process", here? I get no
> indication on how to solve the problem.
>
> Second, I'd like to get my repository back in a working state. I tried the
> usual suspects; "svn cleanup", "svnadmin recover"; I looked for stale locks
> and transactions (none). Still, no luck.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?

Have you tried restarting the server?

bye,

Erik.

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