"successor id already exists in filesystem"

["Sean E. Russell" <se...@germane-software.com>]

Good luck tracking this one down.  Since it fixed itself, I'm posting 
only to provide a warning that something in svn_fs__new_successor_id() 
*may* be broken.

This is SVN r2927, client and server, on Solaris 8.  I have to say, 
incidentally, that compiling Subversion (and Apache 2) on Solaris was 
entirely painless.  Went off without a hitch.  Great job, folks.

Everything was going fine, until one day, on her way to Grandmother's 
house, Goldilocks tried to commit a series of changes to a project and a 
great, big, nasty Error jumped out at her from behind a tree!

"Sending        build.xml
Sending        styles/ProjectData.xsl
Sending        styles/ScreenBuilder_html.xsl
Sending        styles/ScreenBuilder_xul.xsl
Adding         styles/html/CheckBoxGroup.xsl
Sending        styles/html/ListBox.xsl
Sending        styles/html/MenuList.xsl
Sending        styles/html/RadioGroup.xsl
Sending        styles/html/RichText.xsl
Sending        styles/html/SingleChoiceList.xsl
Transmitting file data .....svn: Item already exists in filesystem
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn:
successor id `3r.15.6j' (for `3r.x.2d') already exists in filesystem 
/local1/KITADev/kita/repositories/public/db"

the Error said, in a low, scary voice.

Well, Goldilocks tried re-checking-out the project, copying the changed 
files to the new checkout, and committing, but the Error still followed 
her.  Then she tried 'db_recover -ve -h ...', but that, too, left the 
Error unphased.  Finally, she tried 'svnlook ... ids'.  Grepping for 
3r.15.6j failed, but grepping for 3r.x.2d succeeded!  So Goldilocks 
renamed the offending file, committed all of the other files, and when 
she renamed the offending file back to its original name and checked it 
in, it worked!  The error was vanquished!

And Goldilocks lived happily... until the next error.  (Insert sinister 
foreshadowing music here).

--- SER


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Re: "successor id already exists in filesystem"

[cm...@collab.net]

"Sean E. Russell" <se...@germane-software.com> writes:

> Good luck tracking this one down.  Since it fixed itself, I'm posting
> only to provide a warning that something in svn_fs__new_successor_id()
> *may* be broken.

This is fixed already.  Please upgrade to a newer version of Subversion.

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