Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

Hi Philip,

Thanks for the clarification. Does the message mean either in db/revs or in
db/revprops 'END' tag is missing ?

Regards,
Nitin

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Philip Martin
<philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>wrote:

> Nitin Bhide <nitinbhide_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did
> not
> > work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from
> > 1.7.x to 1.8.1.
> >
> > What exactly is 'serialized hash terminator' error ?
>
> It means one of the repository files is corrupt. It could be a revision
> files in db/revs or it could be a revprop file in db/revprops. A
> serialized hash is a series of K/V pairs followed by END:
>
> K 10
> svn:author
> V 2
> pm
> K 8
> svn:date
> V 27
> 2013-09-05T18:00:22.881511Z
> K 7
> svn:log
> V 1
> m
> END
>
> --
> Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
> WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
>

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