Further investigation revealed a curiously corrupt dump file. I'm
handling instead of raw file access. It's based on the dumpfilter
implementation in 1.3.0. I'm happy to send you (privately) BSD licensed
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Sinyushkin [mailto:
Alexander.Sinyushkin@...]
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 8:32 AM
> To:
svnkit-users@...
> Subject: Re: Error During Repository Load
>
> What is the error that SVN reports you about?
>
> You can use the following attached python script getDumpRev.py to get
> the contents of a certain revision, but you need to have python
> installed on your system.
>
> It must be launched this way:
>
> ./getDumpRev.py pathToDumpFile revStart revEnd
>
> Say, if you want to get the contents of revision 1, then
>
> launch the script in the following way:
>
> ./getDumpRev.py dump2 1 2
>
>
> ----
> Alexander Sinyushkin,
> TMate Software,
>
http://svnkit.com/ - Java [Sub]Versioning Library!
>
> Greg Gibeling wrote:
> > The load only takes a few hours, thankfully. I did try with
> command
> > line SVN, and it failed, but at a later revision and on a different
> > kind of error. I'm trying to sort that out right now, so it'll be a
> > day or two before I get back to SVNKit.
> > I do not have real logs (oops), but I'll generate them as soon as
> I
> > can. Oh, and FYI I can easily build the SVNKit JARs if that makes
> any
> > difference.
> >
> > The thing I wanted to ask: is there any way short of grepping to
> find
> > the "E*"? I know the revision of course, I'm just really hoping not
> to
> > have to search a 25GB file for those characters...
> >
> > -Greg
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Alexander Sinyushkin [mailto:
Alexander.Sinyushkin@...]
> >> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:28 AM
> >> To:
svnkit-users@...
> >> Subject: Re: Error During Repository Load
> >>
> >> Hello Greg,
> >>
> >> Have you tried loading the same dump file with SVN 1.6?
> >> I think such a load takes several days of continuous loading but
> >> still it can help us in finding the problem.
> >> Also I would like to ask you to search for E* string in the dump
> file
> >> and send us the revision snippet where you'll meet it first (I mean
> >> the entire snippet containing that E* string). If nothing helps I'll
> >> send you a new svnkit jar with enhanced logging to investigate the
> problem.
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >> P.S: do you have SVNKit logs with the problem\stack trace? If yes,
> >> then send them to us, please.
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Alexander Sinyushkin,
> >> TMate Software,
> >>
http://svnkit.com/ - Java [Sub]Versioning Library!
> >>
> >> Greg Gibeling wrote:
> >>> While loading a 25GB repository dump into a fresh reposistory I
> >> got
> >>> the following exception "org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn:
> >> Dump
> >>> stream contains a malformed header (with no ':') at 'E*'" from
> >>> svnkit
> >> 1.3.0.
> >>> The dump was created by command line svnadmin version 1.1.x. I
> >> didn't
> >>> capture the rest of the error message, so I'm sure that's not
> enough
> >>> information to say anything useful, but I thought I'd check before
> >> diving
> >>> into a huge debugging cycle.
> >>> Obviously I still have both the dump and the partially loaded
> >>> repository, and I can re-run the load. Is there any information
> >>> that
> >> I
> >>> might be able to provide (aside from the complete exception) to
> help
> >> debug
> >>> this?
> >>>
> >>> -Greg
> >>>
> >>>
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