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RE: Assertion failure in 1.7.3

From: Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis) <frank.perdicaro_at_hp.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:37:25 +0000

Mark,

See comment below.

Frank Perdicaro, frank.perdicaro_at_hp.com
Inkjet Solutions Workflow Engineer
AFP Integration, HQ RIP Details
HP IHPS Corvallis (541) 715-3129

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cooke, Mark [mailto:mark.cooke_at_siemens.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:29 AM
> To: Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis); users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Assertion failure in 1.7.3
>
> > -----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?
[Perdicaro, Frank (GSB-IHPS-Corvallis)]

Not quite right.
I was trying to do a get(checkout) into C:/Users/perdicaro/work/RIP/hhr/dave_test2
At no point did I do anything with AppData or Local or Temp. But Windows was doing
its typical "I know better than you" thing. And it crashed.

>
> > >
> > > > 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 17:51:08 CEST

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