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Re: "{svn | svnadmin}: Decompression of svndiff data failed" and "svn: Malformed representation header", "svn: Corrupt representation" messages

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:35:26 +0300

Bastian Ugimachi wrote on Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 14:17:00 +0200:
> 2011/4/21 Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
>
> > >
> > > I furthermore integrated svn into my IDE (Eclipse Helios) and also tried
> > a
> > > checkout of the project, of which revision 2 (the corrupt one) consisted.
> > > The process aborts, showing the following error:
> > > Get content for 'svn+ssh://
> > server.fqdn.com/path/to/rep/ProjectName/.project'
> > > failed.
> > > svn: Malformed representation header
> > > svn: Corrupt representation '2 325 387 370
> > d66781ba03f9571d044bf8f257601485
> > > 0fd3590a02c19961e78d0ef76efa710d9d6ef194 1-2/_c'
> > >
> >
> > That's the interesting part. It tells you that the representation
> > (either the full plaintext or a binary delta) which starts at byte 325
> > of the r2 revision file is corrupt. You can continue by looking at that
> > offset of that revision and see what bytes you find there. ('xxd -s 325
> > -l 488 /path/to/revs/0/2' for example.)
> >
>
> OK, I performed "xxd -s 325 -l 488 2"
>
> 0000145: 7465 6d2e 6f75 742e 7072 696e 746c 6e28 tem.out.println(
> 0000155: 2256 6965 7274 6572 2057 7572 6622 293b "Vierter Wurf");
> 0000165: 0a09 0953 7973 7465 6d2e 6f75 742e 7072 ...System.out.pr
> 0000175: 696e 746c 6e28 2246 c3bc 6e66 7465 7220 intln("F..nfter
> 0000185: 5775 7266 2229 3b0a 0909 5379 7374 656d Wurf");...System
> 0000195: 2e6f 7574 2e70 7269 6e74 6c6e 2822 5365 .out.println("Se
>
> You can imagine - this is just some Java code...
> By the way... the source file is UTF8 encoded and where xxd says "F..nfter",
> it should be "Fünfter" - I did some Special-Character-Testing here. Might
> this be some problem?
>

No, that's okay: the bytes there (0xC3 0xB3) are one UTF-8 encoding of "ü".

>
> > A representation header is either "PLAIN\n" or "DELTA\n" or "DELTA $some
> > $numeric $parameters\n". A representation terminates in the word
> > "ENDREP\n". The representation's length (excluding header and trailer)
> > should be 387 bytes. Details in the file subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure
> > in the source tree.
> >
> > Here's an example:
> >
> > [[[
> > DELTA
> > SVN[9 chars]This is the file 'iota'.
> > ENDREP
> >
> > ...
> >
> > text: 1 605 37 25 2d18c5e57e84c5b8a5e9a6e13fa394dc
> > 2c0aa9014a0cd07f01795a333d82485ef6d083e2 0-0/_14
> > ]]]
> >
>
> The intersting thing is that the ID in my error message belongs does not
> belong to the same representation as the part extracted by xxd around the
> specified bytes...?!

Well, it's corrupted. The correct representation might be somewhere
nearby --- perhaps a few hundred bytes away (in either direction)?
Received on 2011-04-21 14:36:18 CEST

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