Can't read length line in file X [500, #200002]

[Trevor Dearham <tr...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I'm using Subversion 1.6.9 via the CollabNet Subversion Server. When trying
to check out part of the repository I had an error and saw the following in
the Apache logs:

[Wed Jul 09 10:26:35 2014] [error] [client X] Provider encountered an error
while streaming a REPORT response.  [500, #0]
[Wed Jul 09 10:26:36 2014] [error] [client X] A failure occurred while
driving the update report editor  [500, #200002]
[Wed Jul 09 10:26:36 2014] [error] [client X] Can't read length line in
file Y  [500, #200002]

The revision that is failing is about 49 MB and was created in 2009.
Subversion is hosted on Windows Server 2003.

Looking through the mailing list archive, I see 3 options:

   - restore a backup, which hasn't worked
   - dump before the damaged revision, after the damaged revision and then
   reproduce the change. Unfortunately I don't know all that was changed in
   this revision, due to it occurring 5 years ago
   - if you are willing to look at it
      - provide you the revision
      - provide you an output of a script

I know that this is an old version of Subversion, so would I be able to
recover the file or part of the file, or would the only solution be to
start a new repository with what I can recover?

Thank you
Trevor

Re: Can't read length line in file X [500, #200002]

[Trevor Dearham <tr...@gmail.com>]

Hi

I looked at the log of revision comments and found that the broken revision
is purely adding files that are from another repository at a particular
revision number. I'm in the process of get a copy of that repository.

I took a dump of the repository with the corrupt revision up to that broken
revision. When I tried to take an incremental dump from after that revision
to head, a few revisions got dumped, but I then received the "Can't read
length line in file" error for the broken revision. I'm trying to fix the
repository using the solution described in the archives here
<http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-05/0896.shtml>, where I'd reproduce
the broken revision. I there a way to get a copy of the all the revisions
after the broken one to apply to a new repository?

Thank you
Trevor


On 9 July 2014 11:18, Trevor Dearham <tr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm using Subversion 1.6.9 via the CollabNet Subversion Server. When
> trying to check out part of the repository I had an error and saw the
> following in the Apache logs:
>
> [Wed Jul 09 10:26:35 2014] [error] [client X] Provider encountered an
> error while streaming a REPORT response.  [500, #0]
> [Wed Jul 09 10:26:36 2014] [error] [client X] A failure occurred while
> driving the update report editor  [500, #200002]
> [Wed Jul 09 10:26:36 2014] [error] [client X] Can't read length line in
> file Y  [500, #200002]
>
> The revision that is failing is about 49 MB and was created in 2009.
> Subversion is hosted on Windows Server 2003.
>
> Looking through the mailing list archive, I see 3 options:
>
>    - restore a backup, which hasn't worked
>    - dump before the damaged revision, after the damaged revision and
>    then reproduce the change. Unfortunately I don't know all that was changed
>    in this revision, due to it occurring 5 years ago
>    - if you are willing to look at it
>       - provide you the revision
>       - provide you an output of a script
>
> I know that this is an old version of Subversion, so would I be able to
> recover the file or part of the file, or would the only solution be to
> start a new repository with what I can recover?
>
> Thank you
> Trevor
>