> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)
> [mailto:frank.perdicaro_at_hp.com]
> Sent: 24 September 2012 15:55
> To: Cooke, Mark; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Assertion failure in 1.7.3
>
> Mark,
>
> Please see comments in-line.
ditto
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cooke, Mark [mailto:mark.cooke_at_siemens.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 1:49 AM
> > To: Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis);
> users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Assertion failure in 1.7.3
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)
> > > [mailto:frank.perdicaro_at_hp.com]
> > > Sent: 22 September 2012 01:06
> > > To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > > Subject: Assertion failure in 1.7.3
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your work on Subversion.
> > > It crashed on my Win7 Pro SP1 machine (12 core Xeon5690,
> > > 48GB) while trying to connect for the first time to a new
> > > head.
> >
> > Wow, nice system! What do you mean by "a new head"?
> [Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]
> Not a new toilet! A co-worker of mine made a new
> repository; I had never connected. This was my first connection.
> Perhaps the better phrasing would be 'first connection to the
> main trunk of a brand new repository'.
Thanks for clarifying.
> The system is an HP Z800 configured to be an emulator of an
> HP G7 blade system. We have several of these configured
> for doing analysis of high-speed PDL (page description
> language) processing. It is dual-boot and has the
> high-speed dual-disk RAID -- 4 disks total. Yes, a nice
> PC. MSRP is like a new car.
>
> > > My name is more than 8 chars long, so it gets remapped with a ~1.
> > > (The 8.3 file naming format -- with all its problems -- is
> > > now old enough to collect Social Security. It cannot die
> > > soon enough for me.)
> >
> > While I agree with your comments ref 8.3, we use quite a
> > few paths longer than 8 characters without problems
> > (although I'm still on XP but use Win7 at home). I suspect
> > that is not the problem.
> [Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]
>
> I suspect it is the problem. The COE (corporate operating
> environment) here cuts my name down all the time. This
> results in mismatches fairly often. To me it looks like a
> mismatch between the actual name and the GUID-like name.
> Eventually a null pointer results...
>
> > > Of course there is no such actual directory, so we get the error
> > > message
> > >
> > > 'C:\Users\lngnam~1\AppData\Local\Temp' is not a working copy
> > >
> > > Then the crash:
> > >
> > > ---------------------------
> > > Subversion Exception!
> > > ---------------------------
> > > Subversion encountered a serious problem.
> > > Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list
> >
> > Thanks for doing this
> >
> > > with as much information as possible about what you were
> trying to do.
> >
> > ...but this would help. What was the command(s) you tried
> that failed?
> [Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]
> See above
So you were trying to do a new checkout of a new repository into 'C:\Users\lngnam~1\AppData\Local\Temp'?
The text "is not a working copy" indicates you possibly selected 'update' instead of checkout?
> >
> > > But please first search the mailing list archives for the error
> > > message to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly.
> > > You can find the mailing list archives at
> > > http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
> >
> > Did you do this bit? TortoiseSVN has its own mailing list too.
> [Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]
> Apparently not. I followed the directions in the GUI which
> was displaying the error.
...this is the text you copied from that GUI <insert smiley here> No worries.
> > > Subversion reported the following
> > > (you can copy the content of this dialog to the clipboard using
> > > Ctrl-C):
> > >
> > > In file
> > >
> > > 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.7.3\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c'
> > > line 11679: assertion failed (svn_dirent_is_absolute(local_abspath))
> > > ---------------------------
> > > OK
> > > ---------------------------
> >
> > Note that 1.7.3 (Dec 2011) is now 6 revisions out of date,
> > can you try again with 1.7.9 (30th August 2012) and see if
> > it still fails?
> [Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]
>
> Not so easy. Sure the update is easy, but not making a new
> repository. I will keep this in mind.
This looks to be a client issue, so updating the server is not required. BTW, what version is the server running?
Cheers,
~ Mark C
Received on 2012-09-24 17:29:46 CEST