On Mar 12, 2010, at 14:08, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ricardo Coelho wrote: >> > >> We have a SVN server on Solaris 8 with many repositories. >> To migrate, I do dumps. But for one repository, I have a "Revision file >> lacks trailing newline" error. >> >> The server's version is 1.4.3. > > Hm, svn 1.4 is actually not supported anymore (meaning there won't be > any 1.4.x releases anymore). Of course some people on this list may be > able to still help you, but I suggest that you upgrade your server as > soon as you can (but maybe that's what you're doing now actually). > > I don't really know what you can/should do with this error. But, > pragmatically, I'd try to simply add a trailing newline to that > particular revision file and see if it helps (of course make a backup > copy of that rev file first). > > If that doesn't help, maybe the tool fsfsverify can help fix the > revision file (it seems to be able to handle/fix some forms of rev > file corruption). Google will help you find it.
I see no reason to assume just the newline is missing from the revision; most likely, other critical information is missing as well. Can you restore this revision from your backups?
