On Dec 5, 2011, at 08:32, Martin Bischoff wrote: > -> is it expected that such transaction and locks files and folders remain in > the db folder or is this an indication that there is a problem?
Dead transactions can occur: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.diskspace.deadtxns Dead locks, not sure how that happened but you can probably use rmlocks to get rid of them.