Hi, found in the wild, reproducible with this script:
-------------- # cleanup previous experiments rm -rf repo import url=file://$PWD/repo svnadmin create --compatible-version 1.8 repo cat > repo/db/fsfs.conf <<EOF [deltification] enable-dir-deltification=true max-deltification-walk=63 [rep-sharing] enable-rep-sharing=false EOF echo "# import..." mkdir import ( cd import echo foo > foo.txt echo bar > bar.txt mkdir -p directory-with-a-longish-name svn import -m "initial import" $url ) toplevel=$(svn ls $url | sed "s|^|$url/|") echo "# delete everything" svn delete -m "delete everything" $toplevel echo "# list empty repo" svn ls $url && echo "# OK (nothing here to see)" -------------- and its output (tested with Subversion 1.8.10, .11 and .13): # import... Adding bar.txt Adding directory-with-a-longish-name Adding foo.txt Committed revision 1. # delete everything Committed revision 2. # list empty repo svn: E070014: Can't read file '/work/repo/db/revs/0/0': End of file found Notes: - "svnadmin verify" does NOT report any errors - indeed the output of "svnadmin dump" looks correct - enable-dir-deltification is definitely required to hit the bug - also the length of the name of the directory seems to matter, at least ~12 characters are required The above script produces no error for Subversion 1.9.0 beta1, so FWIIW I ran svn-bisect on trunk from the branching-off point for 1.8.x ("good", ie. has the bug) to the branching-off point of 1.9.x ("bad", ie. it's fixed) and the "culprit" came out as r1554942 which supposedly isn't a fix at all (and modifies a file that doesn't exist in 1.8.x). Cheers, Roderich