On Jan 4, 2012, at 07:12, Alexandru Ioan Cucu wrote: > I've been browsing through the 1.4.6 subversion sources and noticed that this > error message is given when apr_dbm_open or apr_dbm_fetch fail for any reason > (look in mod_dav_svn/activity.c --> const char *dav_svn_get_txn) so I would > assume this is caused by concurrency issues in Berkley DB or in APR... > (though this is just an assumption...)
Also, if you are indeed using a BerkeleyDB-based repository, I'd suggest a dump/load cycle to get onto an FSFS-based repository so you can avoid all the BDB-specific problems. FSFS has been the default repository type since Subversion 1.2 IIRC.