Re: how can I recover my rep. from "Malformed svndiff data in representatioN"?

Hi all...

Thanks John for your interest.

From: "John Szakmeister" <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Subject: Re: how can I recover my rep. from "Malformed svndiff data in representatioN"?
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:22:08 -0400

> > I've just started using a subversion repo. which now has only 5
> > revisions, on a x86_64 linux machine running Fedora 9.
> > The version of the subversion (rpm package) is:
> > subversion-1.4.6-7.x86_64
> > subversion-1.4.6-7.i386
> > The repo uses FSFS and is mainly accessed via svn+ssh.
> >
> > A few days ago, when I tried to checkout the latest revision,
> > I got the following message
> > svn: Decompression of svndiff data failed
> > and some files were missing from the checked-out copy.
>
> Can you provide more information about your setup? Do you have a good
> link? Was it LAN access or WAN? Was it a large commit?

The server and clients are on the same LAN (a few hops)
and I think the link between the two machines is good.

The server provides its access through svn+ssh with
svnserve and sshd (provided by a Fedora package
openssh-server-5.1p1-2.fc9.x86_64).
The svnserve is configured to allow
  anon-access = read
  auth-access = write
(These are the only changes made to our svnserve.conf)

At present I'm the only one user of the server and
my access is mainly from a linux machine (i386, Fedora
9) with svn provided by the subversion-1.4.6-7.i386
rpm package.

There are about 430 files in the failed revision:
many of these are c/fortran source and object files.

> Can I see the corrupted revision? And get the full output of fsfsverify?

This morning I've tried to recover (fake) the failed
revision by loading a dump obtained on a different
machine by making a cloned repository (but failed though:
I still get the same "svn: Malformed svndiff data in
representation" error when checking out for example).

Later I'll send you the corrupted revision and the full
output of the script by a private email.

Thanks in advance.

Yours,
Kazuyoshi

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Kazuyoshi Furutaka
furutaka _dot_ kazuyoshi _at_ jaea _dot_ go _dot_ jp
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