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Re: temporarily can't create new locks

From: Bastien Semene <bsemene_at_cyanide-studio.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:43:15 +0200

Le 27/05/2011 15:34, Daniel Shahaf a écrit :
> Bastien Semene wrote on Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:44:53 +0200:
>> Hi I have a SVN + Apache setup running on FreeBSD :
>> # uname -v
>> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Aug 6 09:37:33 CEST 2010
>> # svn --version
>> svn, version 1.6.16 (r1073529)
>> compiled Apr 13 2011, 09:43:52
>> # httpd -v
>> Server version: Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD)
>> Server built: Jul 23 2010 18:16:05
>>
>> Today users had problems with locks that frozen the repo.
>> TortoiseSVN reported the following error :
>> Can't parse lock/entries hashfile '/var/db/svn/repos/agot/db/locks/328/328675b94c4bb4aa73c5554051d076d2'
>>
> cat /var/db/svn/repos/agot/db/locks/328/328675b94c4bb4aa73c5554051d076d2
>
>> In the Apache error log file I have the following :
>> [Fri May 27 10:05:50 2011] [error] [client 10.1.8.180] The locks
>> could not be queried for verification against a possible "If:"
>> header. [500, #0]
>> [Fri May 27 10:05:50 2011] [error] [client 10.1.8.180] Failed to
>> check path for a lock. [500, #200002]
>> [Fri May 27 10:05:50 2011] [error] [client 10.1.8.180] Can't parse
>> lock/entries hashfile '/var/db/svn/repos/agot/db/locks/328/328675b94c4bb4aa73c5554051d076d2'
>> [500, #200002]
>>
>> I also have fails to create new locks :
>> [Fri May 27 09:36:16 2011] [error] [client 10.1.8.144] Failed to
>> create new lock. [500, #200002]
>> [Fri May 27 09:36:16 2011] [error] [client 10.1.8.144] Can't parse
>> lock/entries hashfile '/var/db/svn/repos/agot/db/locks/328/328675b94c4bb4aa73c5554051d076d2'
>> [500, #200002]
>>
>> If I did an "svnadmin lslocks [path]", the command returns something
>> like "the file is malformed".
>> Un fortunately I didn't copy the exact message.
>>
>> This happened for various lock paths. I tried to move the files in
>> the repo ("/var/db/svn/repos/agot/db/locks/328/328675b94c4bb4aa73c5554051d076d2")
>> to see if it works.
>> The repo was usable again, but locks were still an issue.
>>
> "Don't do that."
>
> The locks/ directory has invariants that you may violate if you move
> files randomly under it.
>
>> I tried to reproduce the problem on a test repository, no problem. I
>> asked the users who got problem locking files to try on the test
>> repo and on the production repo.
>> Everything get fine and I was unable to reproduce the problem.
>>
>> Does anyone have an explanation about this issue ?
>>
>> --
>> Bastien Semene
>> Administrateur Réseau& Système
>>
>> Cyanide Studio - FRANCE
>>

I forgot to say that the files are empty(I did not deleted them), the
permissions are correct (640, www:www)

What is the correct way to resolve this kind of locks problem if the
svnadmin command doesn't want to remove locks either ?
Received on 2011-05-27 15:43:50 CEST

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