Stefan Witzel wrote on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:09:46 +0200:
> Hi,
> 
> when I tried to update from my local svn repository today I got an
> assertion failure:
> 
> svn:
> /tmp/buildd/subversion-1.6.17dfsg/subversion/libsvn_delta/compose_delta.c:165:
> search_offset_index: Zusicherung »offset < ndx->offs[ndx->length]« nicht
> erfüllt.
> 

You should set LC_ALL=C in your environment to get these errors in
English for the list.

> I tried svnadmin verify on the repository which complained that a file
> was not found:
> 
> svnadmin: Datei nicht gefunden: Revision 672, Pfad »/somefile«
> 

Note that this most likely means that a revision _later_ than r672 was
corrupted.  You can determine which from the "* Verified revision N."
outputs of svnadmin.

> In contrast to most similar reports I saw, the missing file is an actual
> file from the repository, not some transaction. I do have backups but
> none including this revision. I have the file, however. So if there was
> a way to get the repository working by purging this file, it would be
> good enough for me. Is there a way to do that?

Create an svnsync copy while accessing the corrupted repository through
svn:// or http:// with authz set to deny read access to the offending
file.

Cheers,

Daniel

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