Hi! I just had a problem with running "svn up" on tomcat.a.o. I found a solution, but I wonder whether others will experience the same issue.
(..)/tomcat.apache.org$ svn up svn: E155004: Working copy '(...)/tomcat.apache.org' locked svn: E200031: attempt to write a readonly database svn: E200031: attempt to write a readonly database svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) An attempt to run "svn cleanup" failed with the same svn: E200031: attempt to write a readonly database svn: E200031: attempt to write a readonly database Looking at database file, (..)/tomcat.apache.org$ ls -l .svn total 9218 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mturk tomcat 3 Jun 14 10:56 entries -rw-rw-r-- 1 mturk tomcat 3 Jun 14 10:56 format drwxrwsr-x 258 mturk tomcat 258 Jun 14 10:53 pristine drwxrwsr-x 5 kkolinko tomcat 5 Jun 14 11:03 tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 mturk tomcat 9332736 Jun 14 11:03 wc.db I see that wc.db is not writable by group. This is normal for svn on this system. I did a sample checkout in my home folder and while other files were "-rw-rw-r--", this one was "-rw-r--r--". I solved the issue by creating a copy of the file and replacing the original: An afterthought: maybe instead of "rm -f" I should have renamed it, postponing deletion until everything is over. cd .svn cp wc.db wc.db.kkolinko rm -f wc.db mv wc.db.kkolinko wc.db After that the owner of the file changed to me (kkolinko) and "svn up" did run successfully, not asking for a cleanup and not complaining about readonly database. Note: it is known that copying the wc.db file when it is being accessed is unsafe. Before changing anything I noted that the change date of "wc.db" as shown by "ls -l" was several hours ago. As the owner of wc.db is now me, I wonder whether others will face the same issue. So here is a recipe. Generally, I do not understand why I was facing the issue. As I mentioned, "wc.db" is normally read-only for the group. For reference, $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.3 (r1242825) compiled Feb 26 2012, 21:09:32 Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
