That thought had crossed my mind, but so far none of the other users who are still using 1.7 clients have had any issues and also running the 1.8.1 client on the server box using the file:// scheme has never produced an error.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: > On 9/10/13 10:41 PM, Curt Sellmer wrote: >> I now have svn 1.8.3 with serf 1.3.1. I am not seeing the "svn: >> E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression" error as >> often at the moment. Have seen it a few times. >> >> But I do intermittently get several different errors as show below. >> - Note that I am running the command over and over repeatedly many times. >> - I again performed 'svnadmin verify' with no errors reported. >> - I also ran these commands on the server box using the file:// >> scheme and never once saw an error. >> >> -------------------------- >> $ svn cat http://gemini2/svn/ezappliance/trunk/README >> svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL >> 'http://gemini2/svn/ezappliance/trunk' >> svn: E175002: Unexpected HTTP status 500 'Internal Server Error' on >> '/svn/ezappliance/trunk' >> >> svn: E160004: Additional errors: >> svn: E160004: Corrupt representation '13 1653716 109 109 >> a6a53d8aefe9d34461e08f7521119e5f' >> >> -------------------------- >> $ svn cat http://gemini2/svn/ezappliance/trunk/README >> svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL >> 'http://gemini2/svn/ezappliance/trunk' >> svn: E175002: Unexpected HTTP status 500 'Internal Server Error' on >> '/svn/ezappliance/trunk' >> >> svn: E160004: Additional errors: >> svn: E160004: Corrupt node-revision '0-1.0.r13/1653516' >> >> -------------------------- >> $ svn log http://gemini2/svn/bedrock/trunk/Rakefile@3 >> svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL >> 'http://gemini2/svn/bedrock/trunk/Rakefile' >> svn: E175002: Unexpected HTTP status 500 'Internal Server Error' on >> '/svn/bedrock/trunk/Rakefile' >> >> svn: E160004: Additional errors: >> svn: E160004: Corrupt representation '29 13323 277 277 >> 634ce706c8679810cb16ec44c9c6c532' > > Are you sure the server end is ok? Those errors are signs of a corrupted > repository. I'm starting to wonder if you're not having issues due to a > hardware issue on the server side. Failing memory could explain the behavior > you're seeing. >