Re: Error During Repository Load

> Further investigation revealed a curiously corrupt dump file.  I'm
> currently re-running the overall test with more debugging enabled.
> Thanks for the python script and the help.
> Just FYI, I wrote some ANT tasks which will do the same thing
> (extract some SVN revisions) but through the SVNKit API for dump file
> 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
> code for that, that you could add to SVNKit if you want.
>
> -Greg
>
>> -----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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