On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
> JP Slavinsky wrote on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 at 16:02 -0700:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > My problem: every time I commit to the repository, I get a "Commit
> failed"
> > message talking about an "invalid UTF-8 sequence". While the message
> says
> > that the commit failed, the commit is actually always successful in the
> > repository. However, on the client-side (both command line and
> Subclipse),
> > the working copy isn't up-to-date and calls to update seem to produce
> lots
> > of issues (conflicts, etc).
> >
> > My setup: yesterday, I upgraded from from SVN 1.4.4 to SVN 1.5.1. I
> built
> > 1.5.1 from source, as I did for 1.4.4. I access my repositories over
> HTTP
> > using Apache 2.0.59. The SVN server is on RedHat 4. Things in 1.4.4
> used to
> > work fine, both from a linux command line and from Eclipse/Subclipse on
> > Windows. Now, both the command line and subclipse attempts at committing
> > give the error message described above and in the example below.
> >
> > My fellow users recently experiencing similar (if not exactly the same)
> > problems
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-08/0444.shtml
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-08/0725.shtml
> > (For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to add to their threads -
> > sorry about that).
> >
> > Any thoughts on why this error is being presented and how to get rid of
> it?
> >
> > Below, I have pasted a log of the steps I take to reproduce the problem.
> I
> > create a repository, check it out, add a file, do a commit (which gives
> the
> > nasty error message), show that my client doesn't believe the commit
> worked,
> > then show that the repository has indeed been updated.
> >
>
> Thanks for the transcript, very helpful (and saves a bunch of questions).
>
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > [root_at_cutlass v1.5]$ svnadmin create sandbox
>
> Does the error go away if you create a BDB repository instead?
>
> > [root_at_cutlass v1.5]$ chown -R apache:apache sandbox
> > [root_at_cutlass v1.5]$ exit
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass v1.5]$ cd ~/temp/workspace/
> > [slavinsk@cutlass workspace]$ svn co http://localhost/svn/sandbox
> > Authentication realm: <http://localhost:80> Sandbox SVN Repository
> (v1.5)
> > Password for 'slavinsk':
> > Checked out revision 0.
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass workspace]$ cd sandbox/
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass sandbox]$ touch test.txt
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass sandbox]$ svn add test.txt
> > A test.txt
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass sandbox]$ svn commit -m "Committing a dummy file"
> > Adding test.txt
> > Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > svn: Valid UTF-8 data
> > (hex: 1c)
> > followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
> > (hex: a4 01)
>
> All reports of this error have "a4 01" as the non-UTF-8 sequence.
>
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass sandbox]$ svn status
> > A test.txt
> > [slavinsk_at_cutlass sandbox]$ svnlook tree /svn/v1.5/sandbox
> > /
> > test.txt
> > --------------------------------------------------
> >
>
Daniel -- thanks for the response. I don't believe that have the Berkeley
DB option available, so I don't know if there is a problem when using it.
For me, all reports of the invalid UTF-8 sequence do have "a4 01".
Below I've include a sample of the apache error log. Is anyone else having
problems with SVN 1.5.1 and Apache 2.0.x?
[...] Could not MERGE resource
"/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/026bfc8d-63e8-4f49-91c5-75958fdd7e1b" into
"/svn/sandbox/trunk". [409, #0]
[...] An error occurred while committing the transaction. [409, #22]
[...] Valid UTF-8 data\n(hex: 1c)\nfollowed by invalid UTF-8 sequence\n(hex:
a4 01) [409, #22]
[...] Could not DELETE
/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/026bfc8d-63e8-4f49-91c5-75958fdd7e1b. [500, #0]
[...] could not open transaction. [500, #2]
[...] Can't open file '/svn/v1.5/sandbox/db/transactions/1-1.txn/props': No
such file or directory [500, #2]
[...] Could not MERGE resource
"/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/181a52d4-37fe-443d-82f9-2cfb1109c5bf" into
"/svn/sandbox/trunk". [409, #0]
[...] An error occurred while committing the transaction. [409, #22]
[...] Valid UTF-8 data\n(hex: 1c)\nfollowed by invalid UTF-8 sequence\n(hex:
a4 01) [409, #22]
[...] Could not DELETE
/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/181a52d4-37fe-443d-82f9-2cfb1109c5bf. [500, #0]
[...] could not open transaction. [500, #2]
[...] Can't open file '/svn/v1.5/sandbox/db/transactions/2-2.txn/props': No
such file or directory [500, #2]
[...] Could not CHECKOUT resource /svn/sandbox/!svn/ver/2/trunk/test.txt.
[409, #0]
[...] resource out of date; try updating [409, #160024]
[...] Could not DELETE
/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/1f07b546-b721-474f-9c82-8c41de1c10e9. [500, #0]
[...] could not abort transaction. [500, #22]
[...] Transaction cleanup failed [500, #22]
[...] Valid UTF-8 data\n(hex: 1c)\nfollowed by invalid UTF-8 sequence\n(hex:
a4 01) [500, #22]
[...] Could not MERGE resource
"/svn/sandbox/!svn/act/10990bbe-b92d-41a7-acca-c752915a8dca" into
"/svn/sandbox/trunk". [409, #0]
where "[...]" is "[TimeStamp] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]"
Thanks, JP
Received on 2008-08-27 17:25:03 CEST