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Re: Severe Problem with one repo

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:57:09 +0200

Scott Miller wrote on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:26:20 -0800:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Subversion 1.6.12 (r955767 on an Ubuntu server. SVN has been
> up and running a long time and had very few, if any, problems. Last week I
> needed to make for new repos. Three went just fine.
>
> The fourth has been a problem. Here is a history of what happened and what
> I did.
>
> I used svnadmin and created the repo on the server.
>
> Using TortoiseSVN I checked it out to my Win7 desktopy. I created
> trunk,tags and branches folders and committed them to the repo. Then I
> took all the production code from our ubuntu server and copied it into a
> subdirectory named public inside the trunk directory. Everything went as
> expected until this point.
>
> Then I tried to commit all this code to the repo. It failed due to lack of
> disk space. This turned out to be correct, I freed up disk space deleted
> the repo directory and started the whole process again. This time when I
> went to commit all the code I got a Cannot write to the prototype revision
> file of transaction '1-5' becasuse a previous reperesntation is currently
> being written by another process.
>
>
> I again deleted everything restarted the server, restarted my desktop. It

Does "restart" mean "apachectl -k restart", "reboot", or something else?

Do you happen to have multiple versions of libapr (ignore libapr-util)?

Are all repositories on the same filesystem and mount point? Is it
a local or network mount?

> still did not work.
>
> I looked through the code I was trying to upload and found that at one
> point it must have been part of some repo because in many subdirectories
> there were .svn folders. On my desktop I deleted them all.
>
> This time I deleted and restarted everything and even used different folder
> and directory names, I still get an error. Commit failed
> Cannot write to the prototype revision file fo the transaction '1-1'
> becasuse a previous reperesntation is currently being written by another
> process.
>
> Where do I go from here?
>
> Scott
Received on 2013-02-27 20:57:47 CET

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