RE: Strange meta-data problem when checking out
Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -Original Message- From: Jochen Wuttke [mailto:wutt...@usi.ch] Sent: 10 December 2010 11:03 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Strange meta-data problem when checking out Hi, when I try a fresh checkout from a shared repository I get the following error message: svn: In directory 'prospectus' svn: Can't open file 'prospectus/.svn/tmp/text-base/prospectus.tex.svn- base': No such file or directory A friend also tried a fresh checkout and got the same error. I tried 'svnadmin verify' on the repository and it verifies all revisions. I looked at the files stored in that offending directory via svnlook to see if someone tried to add the meta-data from .svn to the repository somehow, but did not see anything that shouldn't be there (i.e. only the files we need, no meta-data). I tried google for some hints on what causes this problem and how to fix it, but didn't find much that is promising. If at all possible I'd like to avoid restoring a backup, and since all revisions verify, I wouldn't now which revisions to dump to repair the problem. Any ideas? What is the exact command? What is the SVN version? OS?
Re: Strange meta-data problem when checking out
The server and client are running version 1.6.6. The server is running CentOS, client is Mac with the commandline client. The command was as expected: svn checkout https://my_url On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Giulio Troccoli wrote: Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -Original Message- From: Jochen Wuttke [mailto:wutt...@usi.ch] Sent: 10 December 2010 11:03 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Strange meta-data problem when checking out Hi, when I try a fresh checkout from a shared repository I get the following error message: svn: In directory 'prospectus' svn: Can't open file 'prospectus/.svn/tmp/text-base/prospectus.tex.svn- base': No such file or directory A friend also tried a fresh checkout and got the same error. I tried 'svnadmin verify' on the repository and it verifies all revisions. I looked at the files stored in that offending directory via svnlook to see if someone tried to add the meta-data from .svn to the repository somehow, but did not see anything that shouldn't be there (i.e. only the files we need, no meta-data). I tried google for some hints on what causes this problem and how to fix it, but didn't find much that is promising. If at all possible I'd like to avoid restoring a backup, and since all revisions verify, I wouldn't now which revisions to dump to repair the problem. Any ideas? What is the exact command? What is the SVN version? OS?
Re: Strange meta-data problem when checking out
On 12/10/10 7:33 AM, Jochen Wuttke wrote: The server and client are running version 1.6.6. The server is running CentOS, client is Mac with the commandline client. The command was as expected: svn checkout https://my_url If it is something on the CentOS side, strange permission issues can be caused by having SELinux in enforcing mode. This adds an extra layer of security based on the process, not the id/gid that can be hard to diagnose. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
Re: Strange meta-data problem when checking out
Some serious digging and delving identified the problem: A user did the following command sequence: svn add Prospectus.tex svn ci mv Prospectus.tex prospectus.tex svn add prospectus.tex svn ci Now, because by default HFS does not distinguish between the two filenames, but svn does, it tried to check out the same file twice, and write different meta-data files, which apparently it couldn't. This breaks the working copy where you attempt a checkout or update. svn cleanup will not fix this! The solution is that the criminal who actually did the incorrect rename does a 'svn delete' on one of the two filenames and commits that change. After that svn cleanup svn update fixes affected working copies. You may need to delete the meta-data, but at least you get back a working copy. Jochen On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Wuttke Jochen David wrote: The server and client are running version 1.6.6. The server is running CentOS, client is Mac with the commandline client. The command was as expected: svn checkout https://my_url On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Giulio Troccoli wrote: Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -Original Message- From: Jochen Wuttke [mailto:wutt...@usi.ch] Sent: 10 December 2010 11:03 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Strange meta-data problem when checking out Hi, when I try a fresh checkout from a shared repository I get the following error message: svn: In directory 'prospectus' svn: Can't open file 'prospectus/.svn/tmp/text-base/prospectus.tex.svn- base': No such file or directory A friend also tried a fresh checkout and got the same error. I tried 'svnadmin verify' on the repository and it verifies all revisions. I looked at the files stored in that offending directory via svnlook to see if someone tried to add the meta-data from .svn to the repository somehow, but did not see anything that shouldn't be there (i.e. only the files we need, no meta-data). I tried google for some hints on what causes this problem and how to fix it, but didn't find much that is promising. If at all possible I'd like to avoid restoring a backup, and since all revisions verify, I wouldn't now which revisions to dump to repair the problem. Any ideas? What is the exact command? What is the SVN version? OS?
