Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-13 Thread Nitin Bhide
Hi Andreas, Thanks. I think such recovery tools should be there. Probably not as part of 'svnadmin' but at least in contrib. The FSFS verify helped me. I will post the script I used to my website. I am not sure if the attachments are allowed in this list. If allowed, I will post here as well. I

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-07 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:50:29PM +0530, Nitin Bhide wrote: >Philip/Stefan/Andreas, > >Thanks for the help. I was able to write a small python script >specific to >my needs and recover the repository. It was corrupted revision >property >file. I have written the detai

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-07 Thread Nitin Bhide
Philip/Stefan/Andreas, Thanks for the help. I was able to write a small python script specific to my needs and recover the repository. It was corrupted revision property file. I have written the details in blog post. http://nitinbhide.blogspot.in/2013/09/recovering-from-corrupted-subversion.html

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-06 Thread Philip Martin
Nitin Bhide writes: > Thanks for the clarification. Does the message mean either in db/revs or in > db/revprops 'END' tag is missing ? It means the file ended before the END tag was seen, but it's not possible to say exactly what is missing. -- Philip Martin | Subversion Committer WANdisco //

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-05 Thread Nitin Bhide
Hi Philip, Thanks for the clarification. Does the message mean either in db/revs or in db/revprops 'END' tag is missing ? Regards, Nitin On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Philip Martin wrote: > Nitin Bhide writes: > > > Hi Stefan, > > > > Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-05 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:54:51PM +0530, Nitin Bhide wrote: >Hi Stefan, > >Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did not >work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from >1.7.x to 1.8.1. > >What exactly is 'serialized h

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-05 Thread Philip Martin
Nitin Bhide writes: > Hi Stefan, > > Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did not > work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from > 1.7.x to 1.8.1. > > What exactly is 'serialized hash terminator' error ? It means one of the repository files

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-05 Thread Nitin Bhide
Hi Stefan, Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did not work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from 1.7.x to 1.8.1. What exactly is 'serialized hash terminator' error ? Regards, Nitin On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Stefan Sperling wrot

Re: corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-01 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +0530, Nitin Bhide wrote: > I have a local subversion repository. I am trying to convert it to > Mercurial. In the process I discovered that repository is corrupted. I have > tried the following > > 1. svnadmin verify - confirmed that repository is corrupted at r

corrupted svn repository with “serialized hash missing terminator” error

2013-09-01 Thread Nitin Bhide
I have a local subversion repository. I am trying to convert it to Mercurial. In the process I discovered that repository is corrupted. I have tried the following 1. svnadmin verify - confirmed that repository is corrupted at revision 1265. The verify stops at this revision. 2. svnadmin recover -