Chris Tashjian wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 20:07:02 -0400: > >> AFAIK we do log errors in svnserve. > > I just looked at the current 540MB log file and the word "Error" only > appears in file names committed to the repository. I don't see a single > stacktrace in there either. So maybe svnserve is just hanging w/o error? >
Maybe. Fire a debugger and check? >> 'svnadmin upgrade' was never required. > > I ran it when we moved to 1.5 to take advantage of svn:mergeinfo. I > just ran it again, it took about a second to run. > So you just changed the environment a little. Okay... > >> What does $REPOS/db/format say? > > "5" > Wrong format file. Please look at the file 'db/format', not the file 'format'. Thanks. > >> With FSFS but not with BDB, or vice-versa. Or, for that matter, with >> FSFS format-4 but not with FSFS format-3 (i.e., with/without >> --pre-1.6-compatible). > > Ah, I haven't tried to mess around with the formats at all. Granted, I > don't know if I just bumped it to "5" with that svnadmin upgrade, or if > it was already there. The output from the command said the repository > had been upgraded, not that it was already upgraded (but I don't know if > it'd say that). It's output is the same in both cases (whether or not it found the filesystem already upgraded) --- and, yes, that's a (minor) bug.