[svk-devel] Still problems using svk w/svn.apache.org

[Jason Dillon]

On Mar 2, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Chia-Liang Kao wrote:
> It seems the problematic revision is r472729 that there are
> directories replaced from outside the mirror path, and there was a bug
> in svn that prevents replay to work properly on this.  I believe
> dannyb has a patch for this when he hit the same problem for the gcc
> repo.  But I am not sure if the patch is in svn itself already.
>
> Meanwhile, if you disable pipelining for now, the repository should be
> syncable when not using replay.

How can I disable pipelining?

--jason


> Cheers,
> CLK
>
>
> On 02/03/07, Jason Dillon <jason at planet57.com> wrote:
>> So, svn.apache.org was finally upgrade to svn 1.4.3 today... :-)  And
>> though svk sync did get *much, much* further than it did before (when
>> the server was svn 1.3)... it still pukes with RA layer problems...
>> and now it segfaults too... and sometimes spits out these malloc
>> lines over and over and over (sometimes a few hundred):
>>
>> <snip>
>> $ /opt/local/bin/svk sync -a
>> Starting to synchronize //mirrors/geronimo/server
>> Syncing https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server
>> Retrieving log information from 472725 to 513631
>> RA layer request failed: REPORT request failed on 'https://
>> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server': REPORT of 'https://
>> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server': Could not read chunk
>> delimiter: Secure connection truncated (https://svn.apache.org)
>> Died at /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/SVK/Mirror/Backend/
>> SVNRaPipe.pm line 212.
>> perl(4385) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1c6c000; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4385) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1c6c000; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4385) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1b2a200; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4385) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x357b; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> Segmentation fault
>> </snip>
>>
>> One of the ASF admins was nice enough to peep into the server logs
>> and reported this:
>>
>> <snip>
>> File not found: revision 472728, path '/geronimo/server/trunk/ 
>> modules/
>> geronimo-persistence-jpa10/src/main/java/org/apache/geronimo/
>> persistence/TransformerWrapper.java'
>> the preamble to that is:
>> Provider encountered an error while streaming a REPORT response.
>> [404, #0]
>> Problem replaying revision  [404, #160013]
>> </snip>
>>
>> I had been using the Mac OSX builds from here:
>>
>>      http://homepage.mac.com/hiirem/svkbuilds.html
>>
>> But someone from #asfinfra mentioned something about a new
>> SVK::Mirror and about SVN::Mirror being horrible broken... and since
>> these builds say something about SVN::Mirror, I tried the macports
>> version too (which is what the above output is from).  But both
>> behave in exactly the same way.
>>
>> Another odd thing I noticed was in the last snip above, its
>> referencing the TransformerWrapper.java in rev 472728... which is
>> very odd... since this change is actually in the next revision  
>> 472729.
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=472728
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=472729
>>
>> 472728 actually has nothing to do with the Geronimo project (which is
>> what I am trying to use svk with).
>>
>> I've tried http and https... both fail in the same basic ways, though
>> http pukes with something more like:
>>
>> <snip>
>> $ svk sync -a
>> Starting to synchronize //mirrors/geronimo/server
>> Syncing http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server
>> Retrieving log information from 472725 to 513639
>> RA layer request failed: REPORT request failed on 'http://
>> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server': REPORT of 'http://
>> svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server': 200 OK (http://
>> svn.apache.org)
>> Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/local/svn/
>> perl/SVK/Mirror/Backend/SVNRaPipe.pm line 250.
>> perl(4491) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1cf9a00; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4491) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1ca7a00; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4491) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1c45000; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> perl(4491) malloc: ***  Deallocation of a pointer not malloced:
>> 0x1d22f7b; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the
>> middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable
>> MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
>> Segmentation fault
>> </snip>
>>
>> I even tried to get win32 version (from http://
>> kevinhlight.googlepages.com/svkwin32) working... but the installer
>> complains that its corrupt (and the md5 does not match).  And anyone
>> who knows me... knows I hate windows... but I was (and still am)
>> willing to use it if helps me debug this problem (though if it would
>> only work on windows... er... well... i'll go shoot myself now :-P).
>>
>> Anyways... I completely lost on how to get working with svk for
>> Geronimo :-(  I *desperately* want to get svk working to manage
>> branching and some major project layout re-factoring work.  SVK is
>> the closest thing I'm going to get to Perforce when working on ASF
>> stuff... so I really, really, really want to figure out how to make
>> this work... for me and other Geronimo developers.  This is a hugely
>> powerful tool for managing branching and merging with SVN repos and I
>> really, really... really want to figure this out.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?  Is this a SVK
>> bug?  A SVN bug?  A corrupt repo?  Server on crack?  User on crack?
>>
>> Anything would be helpful...
>>
>> please
>>
>> /me gets down on his knees
>>
>> --jason
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