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RE: Broken repository? - symlink problem?

From: Miller, Eric <Eric.Miller_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 07:46:26 -0800

> Hi.
>
> Earlier today I removed and attempted to check out a clean working
copy of
> a
> project.
> Unfortunately, it seems I can't actually do this. I get the following
> error:
>
> $ svn co file:///source/network
> A network/branches
> A network/tags
> A network/tags/20080304
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg_config.sh
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/ucspi-tcp-bin.tar.gz
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg/postfix-2.3.2.tgz
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg/stunnel-4.15p1.tgz
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg/pcre-6.4p1.tgz
> A
network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg/smartmontools-5.33.tgz
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/pkg/syslog-ng-1.6.8.tgz
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/log
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/log/data
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/home
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/home/admin
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/home/admin/.forward
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/home/admin/.profile
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/pe-audit
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/crl
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/run
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/cert
> A
network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/cert/03e79ce3.0
> A
network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/cert/3f599b3b.0
> A
network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/stunnel/cert/d17afa6d.0
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/spool
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/spool/postfix
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/var/spool/postfix/dev
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/package
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/root_servers
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd
> A network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd/run
> svn: In directory
'network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd'
> svn: Can't change perms of file
> 'network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd/run': No such
file
> or
> directory
>
> $ file network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd/run
> network/tags/20080304/hosts/records/root/service/sshd/run: broken
symbolic
> link to `../../../../../common/service/sshd/run'
>
> I have no idea what could have caused this. I did nothing out of the
> ordinary and received
> no errors in previous commits. Any idea how I can fix this? The
history
> isn't really important,
> I don't mind rescuing HEAD and creating a new repository if that
becomes
> necessary.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

What version of svn? I thought this was fixed.

When I encountered a similar error the problem was that the
svn:needs-lock property was set on the link.

HTH,

Eric Miller

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