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Re: Cannot commit - "a previous representation is currently being written by another process"

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-09-27 14:46:31 CEST

On 9/27/07, Nick Gilbert <nick@x-rm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our users cannot commit to two repositories because they get the
> following error message:
>
> "Cannot write to the prototype revision file of transaction '38-1'
> because a previous representation is currently being written by another
> process"
>
> I can commit to the same repositories OK, but I'm logged in as a
> different user. Is there a way to clear this pending transaction? The
> repository isn't very big (44mb) so would a dump/reload help?
>
> Both are FSFS repos running under Subversion 1.4.2 under Apache on
> Windows 2000.
>
> How can I fix this please?

I'm not sure, but have you tried turning off all accessors completely
(taking down Apache *and* any other accessing processes) and
restarting them after a minute? This might do it...

HTH,
Erik.

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