Error "Partial results are valid but processing is incomplete"

[Ulrich Eckhardt <ec...@satorlaser.com>]

Salu!

The above error started happening a few days ago with one of our BDB based 
repositories. The exact error is 

| svnadmin: Can't read directory entry in 
| '/home/svnserve/repos/external/db': Partial results are valid but 
| processing is incomplete  
| svnadmin: Can't open file '/home/svnserve/tmp/external/format': 
| No such file or directory  


and happens during a hotcopy that is done before backup. The strace is rather 
unspectacular, there are no failed systemcalls before this error is produced. 
The system is running Debian with a Linux 2.6.8 kernel and Subversion 1.2.3. 
We can still dump this repository and load it into another. This other 
repository doesn't show these signs, just like other repositories don't. I'd 
just load it into a new one, but I'd like to know what's going on there and 
whether I'll have to fear some kind of creeping corruption.

Some websearching turned up that this is an error generated in the APR, 
specifically APR_INCOMPLETE. Its description says "The operation was 
incomplete although some processing was performed and the results are 
partially valid."

Uli


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