Re: Have an old SVN 1.1 DB corruption issue and need some help

Well, we are making some progress. All binaries are linked to libdb-4.4. I
ended up having to move subversion to v1.4 for this.

When I try a dump I now get:

svnadmin: Berkeley DB error for filesystem '/var/svn/db' while committing
Berkeley DB transaction:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svnadmin: bdb: not a restored transaction
svnadmin: bdb: PANIC: Invalid argument

So I run db4.4_recover and it says it succeeds. I try a using svnadmin to
dump and it fails like before. I try to do a svnadmin recover and the same
thing.

Any ideas on what to do next? I am unsure what "not a restored transaction"
means in this context.

Regards,
Dana

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Dana Epp <dana_at_vulscan.com> wrote:

> Ya, that was what I meant. 4.4. I imagine if svnadmin is at 4.4, this
> should all work. I took a snapshot of the VM and am now walking through
> upgrades until I find a subversion package with libdb4.4. The guys at
> snapshot.debian.org are my hero... without that side I would be dead in
> the water.
>
> Fingers crossed.
>
> Dana
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>
>> If all commits were through that mod_dav_svn, you should get an svnadmin
>> that is linked to the same BDB as that mod_dav_svn.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> It is not unlikely that there is somewhere a second install of Subversion
>> on you machine. (Maybe in some home directory?). Trying to locate that one
>> might be easier than building one yourself.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Having the same BDB version is more important than having the exact
>> Subversion version. (Although I would recommend backing up whatever you
>> have now, to make sure you don’t break it by trying to recover).****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I know many Windows tools use BDB 4.4.20, so that might be an easy way to
>> get access to such tools. But I don’t know if the BDB database format is
>> fully compatible between platforms. (fsfs is fully compatible, but that
>> doesn’t help you now)****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Bert****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* Dana Epp [mailto:dana_at_vulscan.com]
>> *Sent:* zaterdag 17 augustus 2013 01:14
>> *To:* Chris Shelton
>> *Cc:* users
>> *Subject:* Re: Have an old SVN 1.1 DB corruption issue and need some help
>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Ya, I will definitely load the repo into fsfs on the new system.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> I tried the recovery to no avail yesterday.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> I just completed a restore of the VM to a state before all this started
>> and here is what I now see.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Trying to run an svnadmin dump gives me:****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> svn: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version****
>>
>> When I look at the versions using ldd, here is what I see:****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> mod_dav_svn (which is what everyone is using to check in) is linked to
>> libdb4.4****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> svnadmin is linked to libdb4.2****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> svn is linked to libdb4.2****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> So is my solution to fix this to upgrade svnadmin to a version linked to
>> libdb4.2?****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Regards,****
>>
>> Dana****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> ****
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>> ****
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>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Chris Shelton <
>> cshelton_at_shelton-family.net> wrote:****
>>
>> Dana,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> This page of the subversion book sounds like it might be helpful in your
>> situation:****
>>
>> http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#wedged-repos****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I am sure that switching to a FSFS repository data store with your new
>> system is advisable.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> chris****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Dana Epp <dana_at_vulscan.com> wrote:****
>>
>> I have inherited a REALLY old SVN server that was mismanaged for years.
>> They were using WebDAV successfully for so long they never noticed any
>> issues under the hood, but the BDB is corrupt and cannot run an svnadmin
>> dump on it to move it to a new server that I built that has all the latest
>> SVN bits.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The old system is running SVN 1.1.1 with BDB 4.2.52.****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> At this point after following several different pieces of guidance online
>> the system starts a dump, and ends up after several "Dumped revision #"
>> pukes out hundreds of the following lines:****
>>
>> ****
>>
>> svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_flush: LSN of 56874/862249 past current end-of-log
>> of 1/2786
>> svn: bdb: Database environment corrupt; the wrong log files may have been
>> removed or incompatible database files imported from another environment*
>> ***
>>
>> ****
>>
>> Does anyone know where I should go from here? Does anyone know of anyone
>> consulting on these sort of repairs? I did a full export of the whole repro
>> using WebDAV before I started this, so I have HEAD, but I don't want to
>> lose the history if I don't have to.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Dana ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Dana Epp
>> Microsoft Security MVP ****
>>
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> --
> Regards,
> Dana Epp
> Microsoft Security MVP
>

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Regards,
Dana Epp
Microsoft Security MVP