[kepler-dev] svn: Compression of svndiff data failed

jing tao at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Dec 8 15:38:20 PST 2011


Hi, Christopher:

When i ran "ant change-to ...", ptolemy code was checked out successfully.

Thanks,

Jing

On 12/08/2011 03:29 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote:
> Hi Derik,
> The machine that handles svn for the ptII repository needed a reboot.  
> It had been up for 90 days and was running out of swap.
>
> I was able to verify the problem you reported.
>
> I started svnadmin verify, but it ran out of memory part way, which is 
> a sure sign of trouble.
> dmesg should various problems with swap.
>
> I believe that the issue is that Apache under Solaris 10 leaks memory.
>
> I've restarted source.eecs.berkeley.edu and the command completed for me.
>
> Can you try it again and let me know if there is a problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> _Christopher
>
>
> On 12/8/11 2:56 PM, Derik Barseghian wrote:
>> Hi Christopher,
>>
>> Jing and I have started seeing this error today when trying to 
>> checkout ptolemy-kepler-2.3 from the command line (haven't tried a 
>> fresh checkout of trunk yet to know if it happens with "ptolemy" too).
>>
>> It's happened for me both when 1) doing a fresh checkout of 
>> reporting-2.3 with ant change-to, and 2) sometimes when changing into 
>> the ptolemy-kepler-2.3/src dir and manually running svn update (with 
>> svn 1.6.6).
>>
>> #1)
>> mkdir tmp; cd tmp;
>> svn co 
>> https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/releases/release-branches/build-area-2.3 
>> build-area;
>> cd build-area;
>> ant change-to -Dsuite=reporting-2.3;
>> #...gets partway through ptolemy-kepler-2.3 checkout and:
>> [change-to] A   
>> /home/barseghian/dev2/tmp/ptolemy-kepler-2.3/src/ptolemy/actor/lib/mail/test
>> [change-to] svn: Compression of svndiff data failed
>>
>> #2)
>> cd ../ptolemy-kepler-2.3/src
>> svn update
>> # sometimes happens again here after awhile of file checkouts
>>
>> Any ideas? I saw you have mention of how to fix this when inside 
>> eclipse, but we're on cmd line, so that doesn't seem applicable, but 
>> maybe you're familiar with the issue.
>> I did a quick google and saw a suggestion to check the repository for 
>> corruption with 'svnadmin verify', but I don't know the details of 
>> running that command.
>>
>> Derik
>



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