[SVN-1273] svn cp corrupts *two* repositories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: unknown

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 30/Apr/03 02:58
• Updated: 05/Oct/05 16:48
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

So today I wanted to import part of one of my trees into another.  My 
commands were along these lines: 
 
svn co https://svn.complete.org/offlineimap/offlineimap/head offlineimap 
cd offlineimap 
svn mkdir docs 
svn commit -m "Added new directory for documentation" 
cd docs 
svn cp https://svn.complete.org/test/test/head/sgml-common . 
svn commit -m "Imported from rev 25" 
 
And here is where the fun starts. 
 
In general, the first time I run this commit, I'll get back a "500 internal server 
error."  Yikes.  If I try it again, or an update, I'll get back a more ominous 
message saying I must run svnadmin recover. 
 
So Young Skywalker logs on to the server to run svnadmin recover.  It says it's 
acquiring an exclusive lock and then that it's recovering, but it does nothing 
for about 10 minutes.  So I figure, maybe there's a locking problem.  I kill 
apache2, and wala, svnadmin recover finishes in about 10 seconds. 
 
Now here's another thing.  I had to run svnadmin recover over the offlineimap 
repository, but ALSO over the test repository.  When I'd try to do an update 
from a checked-out copy of the test repository, svn would just sit there and 
finally time out.  I had to kill apache2 before svnadmin worked on that 
repository as well. 
 
This problem is 100% repeatable.  So much so that I inflicted it on myself 
three times trying to make the thing work. 
 
Please let me know if you need any additional information. 
 
Thanks, 
John

Original issue reported by jgoerzen