Even I had the same problem on the MAC OS X, and SVN version old version.
Upgrade your SVN as well as apache to new versions; it will stop corrupting
the more repositories.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Taggesell" <dirk.taggesell_at_proximic.com>
To: <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:08 PM
Subject: corrupted fsfs repository, tools for repair?
> Dear subversion users,
>
> today I ran in a problem with my repository. The server is
> Mac OS X 10.4, subversion and apache are from the macports,
> the repository is accessed via apache and mod_dav_svn v. 1.4.0
> The repository stores data as FSFS.
>
> There has been an undetected filesystem error on the volume
> with the repository, corrupting it.
>
> Now if I want to check out, I receive errors like this:
> "svn: REPORT of '/svn/repo/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read
> chunk delimiter: Secure connection truncated"
>
> I copied the repository over to my Mac and tried to repair it
> using the current macports subversion 1.6.3.
>
> First I inspected the repository and "svnadmin verify" tells me:
> --- snip ---
> * Verified revision 0.
> * Verified revision 1.
> * Verified revision 2.
> * Verified revision 3.
> * Verified revision 4.
> * Verified revision 5.
> * Verified revision 6.
> svnadmin: Invalid diff stream: insn 2403 cannot be decoded
> --- snap ---
>
>
> A svnadmin recover seems to find nothing:
> --- snip ---
> Repository lock acquired.
> Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
>
> Recovery completed.
> The latest repos revision is 17985.
> --- snap ---
>
> But it appears that it actually repairs nothing. As far as
> I've read the recover command is mainly for repositories using
> Berkeley db.
>
> Anyway, I then downloaded Mr. Zakmeisters fsfsverify, but I'm
> not entirely sure how to use it properly.
>
> So svnadmin verify stops at revision 6 and complains about
> "insn 2403". Does that mean that revision 7 is corrupt and i
> should run "fsfsverify.py -f svn/repo/db/revs/7"?
>
> After doing this, fsfsverify tells me: "Fixed? :-) Re-run
> fsfsverify without the -f option" and once I do this, it gives
> me an "Error InvalidWindow: ..." all the time, after each repair
> run with a different number.
>
> Does this mean, I simply have to run it again and again until the
> error is gone? Or is the tool at its wit's end? And the repository
> corrupted beyond repair?
>
> Is there anything else (other than restore from the backup) I can do to
> recover the repository?
>
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