Re: "DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery" after using cvs2svn.py

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:35, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I used the cvs2svn.py script to convert a relatively small repository 
> (the script detected 165 revisions). The script itself did not bring up 
> any errors.
> 
> But then, accessing my repository via web browser or svn client gets me 
> the following error:
> 
> Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem 
> /var/lib/svn/xxx/db: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
> 
> a) Why is this error happening?

The error is probably happening due to permissions problems.  See the
"repository permissions" section in chapter 5 of the book.



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Re: "DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery" after using cvs2svn.py

[Andreas Schildbach <an...@schildbach.de>]

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>>Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem 
>>/var/lib/svn/xxx/db: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
>>
>>a) Why is this error happening?
> 
> The error is probably happening due to permissions problems.  See the
> "repository permissions" section in chapter 5 of the book.

This hint solved my problem. I was running the cvs2svn script with user 
root, leaving some files owned by root behind.

Thanks!

Regards,

Andreas


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