Scott Miller wrote on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:26:20 -0800: > Hi, > > I am using Subversion 1.6.12 (r955767 on an Ubuntu server. SVN has been > up and running a long time and had very few, if any, problems. Last week I > needed to make for new repos. Three went just fine. > > The fourth has been a problem. Here is a history of what happened and what > I did. > > I used svnadmin and created the repo on the server. > > Using TortoiseSVN I checked it out to my Win7 desktopy. I created > trunk,tags and branches folders and committed them to the repo. Then I > took all the production code from our ubuntu server and copied it into a > subdirectory named public inside the trunk directory. Everything went as > expected until this point. > > Then I tried to commit all this code to the repo. It failed due to lack of > disk space. This turned out to be correct, I freed up disk space deleted > the repo directory and started the whole process again. This time when I > went to commit all the code I got a Cannot write to the prototype revision > file of transaction '1-5' becasuse a previous reperesntation is currently > being written by another process. > > > I again deleted everything restarted the server, restarted my desktop. It
Does "restart" mean "apachectl -k restart", "reboot", or something else? Do you happen to have multiple versions of libapr (ignore libapr-util)? Are all repositories on the same filesystem and mount point? Is it a local or network mount? > still did not work. > > I looked through the code I was trying to upload and found that at one > point it must have been part of some repo because in many subdirectories > there were .svn folders. On my desktop I deleted them all. > > This time I deleted and restarted everything and even used different folder > and directory names, I still get an error. Commit failed > Cannot write to the prototype revision file fo the transaction '1-1' > becasuse a previous reperesntation is currently being written by another > process. > > Where do I go from here? > > Scott