Hi, This time the commit worked.
Shall I still experiment with the test project? On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Steve White wrote: >> OK I tried it again. Still not working -- it has hung: >> >> $ svn commit >> Sending ...<correct list of files> >> Transmitting file data ...done >> Committing transaction... > > And that also shows a process stuck on it on the server side. > > root@vcs0:~# lsof | grep txn-current-lock > svnserve 20468 Stevan_White 4u REG 0,24 > 0 7003445 /net/vcs/srv/svn/freefont/db/txn-current-lock (vcs:/) > >> And nothing for several minuts. Previously I killed the process and >> tried again later -- this is when I saw the issue with the lock on the >> server. >> I have been committing the same way pretty regularly recently and this >> thing just started happening yesterday. >> And I saw it happen on a different system, when I committed something >> from there. > > Sometimes the root cause is not immediately clear. I tested to our > test-project and I could commit okay. I have a suspicion and tried > something. Please try it again now. > > (I hate to say before I know but I have seen the nfs lockd get into an > odd state on individual files before. This is tied to the inode and > so tracks the physical file and not the name. Therefore I rotated > that file out of the way and a copy into place. This doesn't > eliminate the problem but side-steps it. If it is one of those times > again then the problem will follow the file and all will appear okay > now. And if not then it is something completely different. Just a > diagnose step.) > >> I'll leave it like this for a while so you can look at it. > > I killed that process on the server side. > >> What else can I look at? > > I added you to the test-project. Please check that out and make some > random change to test-file1.txt or create a new file or whatever and > then commit that back in. Did that work? Do that twice or three > times. Does that work? It's a test project to test svn functionality > on Savannah so please keep it clean but the changes aren't important > otherwise. Any diddle and commit should test the flow. > > svn co svn+ssh://stevan_wh...@svn.savannah.nongnu.org/test-project > > Bob