Hi Stefan, Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did not work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from 1.7.x to 1.8.1.
What exactly is 'serialized hash terminator' error ? Regards, Nitin On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 12:02:18PM +0530, Nitin Bhide wrote: > > I have a local subversion repository. I am trying to convert it to > > Mercurial. In the process I discovered that repository is corrupted. I > have > > tried the following > > > > 1. svnadmin verify - confirmed that repository is corrupted at revision > > 1265. The verify stops at this revision. > > 2. svnadmin recover - was unable to recover the repository. > > 3. tried to dump the repository content. svnadmin dump fails at revision > > 1265. So dumped till 1264. Took another dump from revision 1322. (all > > revision from 1265 to 1321 are giving the serialized hash terminator > error). > > 4. I tried to combine the dumps and load it into a new repository. > However, > > some files were added in the 'missing' revisions (1265 to 1321) and while > > loading dump I am getting errors. > > > > I googled for error and advice seems to be dump the repository and reload > > the contents in new repository. However, that does not work for me. > > > > I tried to find what exactly is the meaning of the error. However, I > could > > not get any information. I tried to read the documentation of FSFS > > structure ( > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure > ). > > I tried to manually check revision file for 1265 and see what is wrong. > But > > could not find anything visibly wrong. > > > > Is there any way to correct this error in the repository > > (manually/programmatically) ? > > > > If someone can give me a hint on what is wrong in the file and underwhat > > conditions this error occurs, I will try to write a script to correct it. > > > > Regards, > > Nitin > > Give this script a try: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/server-side/fsfsverify.py > It can fix some instances of corruption which was probably caused by > older Subversion/APR versions. > -- ============================================ In theory, there is NO difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there IS Yogi Berra ============================================ My company's new product : BootstrapToday - Simple and Sensible Application Lifecycle Management http://www.bootstraptoday.com
