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Re: Unable to open repository following reboot

From: Pat Haley <phaley_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:06:14 -0500

Hi Henrik,

>> Last week we rebooted the NAS server which hosts the disk where
>> (among other things) our svn repositories reside, in order
>> to enable quotas on that disk. Since that time, we have been
>> unable to work with these repositories. We see the following
>> error messages
>>
>> ---------------------
>> (trying local access)
>> ---------------------
>>
>> mseas(PaperWork)% svn update
>> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
>> svn: Unable to open repository
>> 'file:///home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper'
>> svn: disk I/O error
>> svn: disk I/O error
>
> Are you able to do
>
> ls -al /home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper
> ?

Sorry that I forgot to mention it in my original Email,
but yes I can look in the directory, and I seem to
see everything I expected

% ls -al /home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper
total 32
drwxrwxr-x 6 phaley phaley 4096 Aug 17 2011 .
drwxrwxr-x 13 phaley phaley 4096 Nov 9 20:31 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 phaley phaley 4096 Aug 17 2011 conf
drwxrwsr-x 6 phaley phaley 4096 Nov 9 20:36 db
-r--r--r-- 1 phaley phaley 2 Aug 17 2011 format
drwxrwxr-x 2 phaley phaley 4096 Aug 17 2011 hooks
drwxrwxr-x 2 phaley phaley 4096 Aug 17 2011 locks
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phaley phaley 229 Aug 17 2011 README.txt

>
> What about:
> find /home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper -type f -exec cat {}\; >
> /dev/null
> ?

% find /home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper -type f
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/conf/svnserve.conf
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/conf/authz
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/conf/passwd
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/pre-unlock.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/post-commit.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/post-unlock.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/start-commit.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/post-lock.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/pre-lock.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/post-revprop-change.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/hooks/pre-commit.tmpl
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/locks/db-logs.lock
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/locks/db.lock
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/db/revs/0/65
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/db/revs/0/115
/home/phaley/Papers/2011/ArpitVel/SvnPaper/db/revs/0/38

followed by many more similar lines

>
> To me it sounds as if your NAS has some disk problem which might be
> hardware related, or, if you are lucky, only a logical error caused by a
> clumsy uncontrolled boot. If you have a logical error it might be possible
> to fix with some kind of fsck depending upon what kind of NAS you have.
>
> regards Henrik

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Pat Haley Email: phaley_at_mit.edu
Center for Ocean Engineering Phone: (617) 253-6824
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Fax: (617) 253-8125
MIT, Room 5-213 http://web.mit.edu/phaley/www/
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4301
Received on 2013-12-04 23:06:53 CET

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