Re: E200004: Could not convert '<...>' into a number

For information, I found out that some revisions were damaged due to
disk failure. The dump and load process worked flawlessly when I
recovered them from backups.

Thanks for the help.

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Vinicius Massuchetto
2016-06-08 10:57 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Massuchetto <vmassuchetto_at_gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:35:33 GMT, Stefan Hett wrote:
>>> On 6/7/2016 9:24 PM, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
>>> Cleaning up and running update again seems to change files properly,
>>> but the error keeps coming back every time. I noticed using `svnadmin
>>> verify` that the error applies to most revisions just after a specific
>>> one. `svnadmin dump` also fails with:
>>>
>>>      * Error verifying repository metadata.
>>>      <same 'convert' error as above>
>>Could you provide the error output from svn verify?
>
> Hi Stefan. Sorry, the error I was mentioning above is for `svnadmin
> verify`. To be clear, these are the errors I'm getting:
>
>     $ svnadmin dump -r<rev> . > dumpfile
>     svnadmin: E200004: Could not convert
> '?\F6R?\EF?\F2?\9Bn1?\85?\9F?\A4?\AFm?\F5?\95?\8A ?\D4RJ?\80w3'h?\9A?\ED?\CC{!p?\B3?\C6?\C2!P?\DE?\EA?\F0?\C3
>
>
>     ?\8D;?\E8?\E4 ?\D9
>             s<=4' into a number
>
> This creates a dump file with revision details but without binary data
> (ends on 'PROPS-END' line).
>
>     $ svnadmin verify -r1541 .
>     * Error verifying repository metadata.
>     svnadmin: E200004: Could not convert
> '?\F6R?\EF?\F2?\9Bn1?\85?\9F?\A4?\AFm?\F5?\95?\8A ?\D4RJ?\80w3'h?\9A?\ED?\CC{!p?\B3?\C6?\C2!P?\DE?\EA?\F0?\C3
>
>
>     ?\8D;?\E8?\E4 ?\D9
>             s<=4' into a number
>
> Thanks.