If you're using svn+ssh://, maybe ssh is prompting you? Can you run the offending command under a debugger and investigate where it spends its time?
jason_zhuyx wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:59:56 -0700: > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3687 > > Sorry I should have come to this mailing list before submitting my question > on Issue Tracker. > > Since this issue can only be reproduced on some build machines in my company, > I'd like to ask some experts' help on how to do the troubleshooting/debug to > understand why such issue exists. > > Thanks > > > > Could someone provide help to me on how to test such issue on my systems? > Thanks > to hwright and Andy Levy's feedback. But unfortunately, I have tried on > several > machines and this issue repeats (even after I upgrade svn to version 1.6.12 > r955767). > > On CentOS (2.6.18-128.el5 CentOS release 5.3), the svn version is 1.6.2 > (r37639). run `svn up -r 90000` on command line will not return until press > Ctrl+Z. And I had to run `svn cleanup` or the workspace was locked. > > On Windows XP SP3, the latest svn I am testing is 1.6.12 (r955767), installed > from CollabNet. The command prompt will never return to next prompt until I > have to kill svn.exe in Task Manager. > > I found such issue when I was writing a script which could accept an invalid > revision and hang, so that I had to test the revision range by myself. > > I'd appreciate any hint for me to figure out why this happens on my > installations. > > ------- Additional comments from hwri...@tigris.org Mon Jul 19 17:11:51 -0700 > 2010 ------- > Can not reproduce using 1.6.12 (tested against the asf repo): > > $ svn up -r1000000 > subversion/libsvn_ra_neon/util.c:723: (apr_err=160006) > svn: No such revision 1000000 > $ > > --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: svn update -r $revision could hang if $revsion is greater than > HEAD > To: "jason_zhuyx" <jason_zh...@yahoo.com> > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 6:24 AM > > XP SP3 here, 1.6.6 (r40053), I cannot reproduce the issue. > > C:\_Projects\workspace\proj>svn up > At revision 5604. > > C:\_Projects\workspace\proj>svn up -r 6000 > svn: No such revision 6000 > > C:\_Projects\workspace\proj>svn --version > svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053) > compiled Oct 19 2009, 09:36:48 > > No hangs. > > > >