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Re: Commit failure when doing concurrent commits: "the specified activity does not exist"

From: Alexandru Ioan Cucu <ai_cucu_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:34:23 -0800 (PST)

Yes, Thought that on the users mailing list there might be someone that might have had this problem many years ago :) Thanks ________________________________ From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> To: Alexandru Ioan Cucu <ai_cucu_at_yahoo.com> Cc: "users_at_subversion.apache.org" <users_at_subversion.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 5:13 PM Subject: Re: Commit failure when doing concurrent commits: "the specified activity does not exist" On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 08:12, Alexandru Ioan Cucu <ai_cucu_at_yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm running the following configuration: > > OS:  Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) > svn: 1.4.6dfsg1-2ubuntu1.3 > apache2: 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.22 > apache2-mpm-prefork: 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.22 > > And experiencing the following problem: > When performing simultaneous commits from 5 different stations, some commits > fail with the following messages (taken from the apache error log): > > [Wed Dec 14 09:59:20 2011] [error] [client 10.46.1.21] Could not CHECKOUT > resource /cp1-svn/!svn/bln/17472.  [409, #0] > [Wed Dec 14 09:59:20 2011] [error] [client 10.46.1.21] The specified > activity does not exist.  [409, #190002] > > I've been browsing through the 1.4.6 subversion sources and noticed that > this error message is given when apr_dbm_open or apr_dbm_fetch fail for any > reason (look in mod_dav_svn/activity.c  --> const char *dav_svn_get_txn) so > I would assume this is caused by concurrency issues in Berkley DB or in > APR... (though this is just an assumption...) Subversion 1.4 is no longer supported (and that has been the case for a very long time), so unless you're looking to perform your own fix to the source, the first response you're going to get is "upgrade to a supported release."
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