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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Jorge Fuente-Alba <th...@softhome.net> on 2004/06/15 04:41:01 UTC
svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Hello... i talked about this to a few people on IRC:
Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition.
upon doing:
D:\>svnadmin create svntest
i get:
svn: Berkeley DB error while creating 'nodes' table for filesystem
svntest/db:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
which is, of course, unrecoverable.
The fun bit is when i started poking around with this, i found out that
i can create the DB in other partitions (i got five, two on one disk,
three in another, all local) as long as it wasnt the same physical
disk.... O_o;;
Then i tried creating a DB in C, which worked, but when moving to one of
the offending partitions, svnlook would die trying to fetch the date or log.
Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, and moved it back. It still
worked.
Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, did svnlook date on it, then
moved it back. It was dead.
any Ideas? i know i could install linux, i could mount the DB in another
partition, etc.. but thats not what im asking about.
Thanks.
PS: i did try changing permissions and owner to no avail. thats the
reason behind the format.
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
>> interaction with a virus scanner or similar software. I'm only guessing,
>> though.
>
> I can only guess that it might be some kind of hardware problem, or
> yeah... an antivirus would have caused problems in all partitions,
Not necessarily...depends on how it's configured
> if it was an issue and i would have noticed a hardware problem when
> moving things around...
Again, not necessarily. It could be a driver problem, for example. Some
filter driver could be interfering with BDB's ability to mmap the
databse files.
> should i mail the dev list?
If you find a reliable way to reproduce this (other than "use /that/
disk on my machine") then by all means describe it on the dev@ list. A
significant difference between the offending disk and all other volumes
on your system would definitely help.
> and thanks for giving it a shot ^_^
We try. :-)
-- Brane
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Jorge Fuente-Alba <th...@softhome.net>.
>I can only guess that it might be some kind of hardware problem, or
>interaction with a virus scanner or similar software. I'm only guessing,
>though.
>
>
yeah... an antivirus would have caused problems in all partitions, if it
was an issue
and i would have noticed a hardware problem when moving things around...
should i mail the dev list?
and thanks for giving it a shot ^_^
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
> First of all, thanks for the help =)
>
>> Can you tell us more about the partitions, especially differences
>> between the ones that work and the one that doesn't? Things like
>> filesystem size, allocation size, compression/encryption flags, etc.
>>
> Ok, i'll name them G and D (windows stuff, ya know) where D is the
> place i want the repository to be, and G is the other partition where
> it wont work, both are in the same disk. No partition (at all!) is
> compressed or encrypted. All of these are local disks.
>
> D (NTFS): size: 6.38Gb, 147Mb used
> cluster size: 4kb
> MFT: 631kb, 85% used
>
> G (FAT32): size: 1.48Gb, 598Mb used
> cluster size: 4kb
I can understand wouldn't work on G; we've had problems on FAT before,
but nobody cared enough to fix them. I don't see how that would affect
the D volume, though.
Hm... I tried creating a FAT32 volume on some free space I have on a
(dynamic) logical disk that already contains 4 NTFS volumes. I can't
reproduce your problem, though; I can still create a repository on the
FAT32 and any NTFS volume.
I can only guess that it might be some kind of hardware problem, or
interaction with a virus scanner or similar software. I'm only guessing,
though.
> for reference, the disk i'm using now to hold the repository (where it
> works):
> C (NTFS): size: 9,99Gb, 8,79Gb used
> cluster size: 4Kb
> MFT: 107Mb, 96% used
>
> is that what you asked for? i'm not so sure.
Yup. It doesn't help me much, but it is what I asked for... :-)
Sorry I can't help you more.
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Jorge Fuente-Alba <th...@softhome.net>.
First of all, thanks for the help =)
>Can you tell us more about the partitions, especially differences
>between the ones that work and the one that doesn't? Things like
>filesystem size, allocation size, compression/encryption flags, etc.
>
Ok, i'll name them G and D (windows stuff, ya know) where D is the place
i want the repository to be, and G is the other partition where it wont
work, both are in the same disk. No partition (at all!) is compressed or
encrypted. All of these are local disks.
D (NTFS): size: 6.38Gb, 147Mb used
cluster size: 4kb
MFT: 631kb, 85% used
G (FAT32): size: 1.48Gb, 598Mb used
cluster size: 4kb
for reference, the disk i'm using now to hold the repository (where it
works):
C (NTFS): size: 9,99Gb, 8,79Gb used
cluster size: 4Kb
MFT: 107Mb, 96% used
is that what you asked for? i'm not so sure.
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
> Its very weird, and i definitely need help with it =/
> I can't keep the repository for too long in its current location
> maybe i found a bug? =O
It's hard to say without more information.
> any help appreciated, and let me know if i should post to devs
Can you tell us more about the partitions, especially differences
between the ones that work and the one that doesn't? Things like
filesystem size, allocation size, compression/encryption flags, etc.
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Jorge Fuente-Alba <th...@softhome.net>.
Branko Čibej wrote:
>Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
>
>
>
>>Branko Čibej wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Which filesystem are you using on that partition where BDB doesn't work?
>>>And have you tried to scan he disk for errors?
>>>
>>>
>>"Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition."
>>
>>
>
>Oops, sorry...
>
>
>
>>checked the disk for errors (not one found), and I had been working
>>with it for ages without any trouble (i keep my personal stuff there,
>>and i just hauled it all out to accomodate the repository, with no
>>errors)
>>
>>
>
>I can't imagine what would be going wrong. It's almost certainly not the
>permissions, or svnadmin couldn't have created anything at all. Weird.
>
>
>
Its very weird, and i definitely need help with it =/
I can't keep the repository for too long in its current location
maybe i found a bug? =O
any help appreciated, and let me know if i should post to devs
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> Which filesystem are you using on that partition where BDB doesn't work?
>> And have you tried to scan he disk for errors?
>
> "Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition."
Oops, sorry...
> checked the disk for errors (not one found), and I had been working
> with it for ages without any trouble (i keep my personal stuff there,
> and i just hauled it all out to accomodate the repository, with no
> errors)
I can't imagine what would be going wrong. It's almost certainly not the
permissions, or svnadmin couldn't have created anything at all. Weird.
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Jorge Fuente-Alba <th...@softhome.net>.
Branko Čibej wrote:
>Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello... i talked about this to a few people on IRC:
>>
>>Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition.
>>
>>upon doing:
>>D:\>svnadmin create svntest
>>
>>i get:
>>svn: Berkeley DB error while creating 'nodes' table for filesystem
>>svntest/db:
>>DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
>>
>>which is, of course, unrecoverable.
>>The fun bit is when i started poking around with this, i found out
>>that i can create the DB in other partitions (i got five, two on one
>>disk, three in another, all local) as long as it wasnt the same
>>physical disk.... O_o;;
>>
>>Then i tried creating a DB in C, which worked, but when moving to one
>>of the offending partitions, svnlook would die trying to fetch the
>>date or log.
>>Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, and moved it back. It still
>>worked.
>>Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, did svnlook date on it, then
>>moved it back. It was dead.
>>
>>any Ideas? i know i could install linux, i could mount the DB in
>>another partition, etc.. but thats not what im asking about.
>>
>>
>
>Which filesystem are you using on that partition where BDB doesn't work?
>And have you tried to scan he disk for errors?
>
>
"Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition."
checked the disk for errors (not one found), and I had been working with
it for ages without any trouble (i keep my personal stuff there, and i
just hauled it all out to accomodate the repository, with no errors)
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Re: svnadmin create dies strangely - WinXP
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>.
Jorge Fuente-Alba wrote:
> Hello... i talked about this to a few people on IRC:
>
> Working in WinXP-SP1 on a recently NTFS formatted local partition.
>
> upon doing:
> D:\>svnadmin create svntest
>
> i get:
> svn: Berkeley DB error while creating 'nodes' table for filesystem
> svntest/db:
> DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
>
> which is, of course, unrecoverable.
> The fun bit is when i started poking around with this, i found out
> that i can create the DB in other partitions (i got five, two on one
> disk, three in another, all local) as long as it wasnt the same
> physical disk.... O_o;;
>
> Then i tried creating a DB in C, which worked, but when moving to one
> of the offending partitions, svnlook would die trying to fetch the
> date or log.
> Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, and moved it back. It still
> worked.
> Then, i created a new DB, moved it there, did svnlook date on it, then
> moved it back. It was dead.
>
> any Ideas? i know i could install linux, i could mount the DB in
> another partition, etc.. but thats not what im asking about.
Which filesystem are you using on that partition where BDB doesn't work?
And have you tried to scan he disk for errors?
--
Brane Čibej <br...@xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Line ending inconsistency
Posted by Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com>.
I was un-nerved recently when after making some changes and attempting to revert
I was told that there were line ending inconsistencies in the source stream.
The problem seemed to be that the original source contained a single 0x0D
character and that prevented SVN from continuing. Attempts to update also caused
this problem. I believe the original file in the CVS repository had this problem
and it was propagated into the svn repository via cvs2svn.
The fix involved going from svn:eol-style native to binary and back.
Can anyone give a clear description of when this problem is liable to happen
and what is the 'correct' way to fix up a file when this happens?
--
Robin Becker
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