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Bug 328258

Summary:	SVN got into weird state
Product:	[Technology] Subversive	Reporter:	Michael Rennie <Michael_Rennie>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Igor Burilo <igor.burilo>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	a.gurov
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Michael Rennie

2010-10-20 11:25:06 EDT

Eclipse build: I20101012-0800 (3.7)
Subversive build: 0.7.9.I20100512-1900
Connector build: 2.2.2.I20100512-1900

Upon starting Eclipse today, and trying to syc two projects from google code - firebug (1.7 branch) and crossfire (0.3 branch) I got the following exception reported many times and the sync failed:


org.eclipse.team.svn.core.connector.SVNConnectorException: svn: '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger' is not a working copy
svn: Cannot read from '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format': /home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format (No such file or directory)
at org.polarion.team.svn.connector.svnkit.SVNKitConnector.handleClientException(SVNKitConnector.java:1400)
at org.polarion.team.svn.connector.svnkit.SVNKitConnector.status(SVNKitConnector.java:337)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.extension.factory.ThreadNameModifier.status(ThreadNameModifier.java:608)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.local.RemoteStatusOperation$2.run(RemoteStatusOperation.java:147)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doSubTask(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:118)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.protectStep(AbstractActionOperation.java:154)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.protectStep(AbstractActionOperation.java:149)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.local.RemoteStatusOperation.runImpl(RemoteStatusOperation.java:145)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.run(AbstractActionOperation.java:81)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTask(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:104)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.CompositeOperation.runImpl(CompositeOperation.java:95)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.run(AbstractActionOperation.java:81)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.LoggedOperation.run(LoggedOperation.java:39)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTask(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:104)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTaskExternal(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:90)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.synchronize.AbstractSVNSubscriber.findChanges(AbstractSVNSubscriber.java:314)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.synchronize.AbstractSVNSubscriber$UpdateStatusOperation$2.run(AbstractSVNSubscriber.java:349)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doSubTask(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:118)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.protectStep(AbstractActionOperation.java:154)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.protectStep(AbstractActionOperation.java:149)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.synchronize.AbstractSVNSubscriber$UpdateStatusOperation.runImpl(AbstractSVNSubscriber.java:347)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.AbstractActionOperation.run(AbstractActionOperation.java:81)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.operation.LoggedOperation.run(LoggedOperation.java:39)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTask(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:104)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTaskExternal(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:90)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.utility.ProgressMonitorUtility.doTaskExternal(ProgressMonitorUtility.java:81)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.synchronize.AbstractSVNSubscriber.refresh(AbstractSVNSubscriber.java:186)
at org.eclipse.team.svn.core.synchronize.UpdateSubscriber.refresh(UpdateSubscriber.java:73)
at org.eclipse.team.core.subscribers.Subscriber.refresh(Subscriber.java:466)
at org.eclipse.team.core.subscribers.SubscriberMergeContext.refresh(SubscriberMergeContext.java:85)
at org.eclipse.team.core.mapping.provider.SynchronizationContext.refresh(SynchronizationContext.java:109)
at org.eclipse.team.internal.ui.synchronize.RefreshModelParticipantJob.doRefresh(RefreshModelParticipantJob.java:69)
at org.eclipse.team.internal.ui.synchronize.RefreshParticipantJob.run(RefreshParticipantJob.java:309)
at org.eclipse.team.internal.ui.synchronize.RefreshModelParticipantJob.run(RefreshModelParticipantJob.java:117)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
Caused by: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: svn: '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger' is not a working copy
svn: Cannot read from '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format': /home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format (No such file or directory)
at org.tigris.subversion.javahl.JavaHLObjectFactory.throwException(JavaHLObjectFactory.java:724)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.javahl.SVNClientImpl.throwException(SVNClientImpl.java:1929)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.javahl.SVNClientImpl.status(SVNClientImpl.java:304)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.javahl.SVNClientImpl.status(SVNClientImpl.java:282)
at org.polarion.team.svn.connector.svnkit.SVNKitConnector.status(SVNKitConnector.java:334)
... 33 more
Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger' is not a working copy
svn: Cannot read from '/home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format': /home/mrennie/workspaces/workspace/CommandLineDebugger/.svn/format (No such file or directory)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminAreaFactory.open(SVNAdminAreaFactory.java:149)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.doOpen(SVNWCAccess.java:355)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.open(SVNWCAccess.java:263)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.open(SVNWCAccess.java:256)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.openAnchor(SVNWCAccess.java:151)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNStatusClient.doStatus(SVNStatusClient.java:320)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.javahl.SVNClientImpl.status(SVNClientImpl.java:300)
... 35 more

Sorry I have no other steps than I started Eclipse and tried to sync the projects. I have no other SVN tools installed, I only use the Eclipse Subversive plugins for SVN syncing.

I did manage to find a workaround for the problem.

Workaround steps:
1. shut down Eclipse
2. navigate to the project folder on disk
3. delete the **/.svn/tmp folder and all its contents
4. restart Eclipse and sync

Comment 1 Alexander Gurov

2010-10-20 11:42:55 EDT

Looks like incompatibility between some external SVN tool and SVN connector used in Eclipse IDE (for example when command line is SVN 1.6 compatible, but Eclipse still uses SVN 1.4 or SVN 1.5 compatible one). Is this is the case?

Comment 2 Michael Rennie

2010-10-20 12:19:50 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like incompatibility between some external SVN tool and SVN connector
> used in Eclipse IDE (for example when command line is SVN 1.6 compatible, but
> Eclipse still uses SVN 1.4 or SVN 1.5 compatible one). Is this is the case?

no, see the end of comment #0

"I have no other SVN tools installed, I only use the Eclipse Subversive plugins for SVN syncing."

Comment 3 Alexander Gurov

2015-09-25 15:34:27 EDT

There is no support for SVN 1.6 and earlier in Subversive now and SVN 1.7 and later uses a different working copy format. So, though the cause of the bug is still unknown it definitely won't appear anymore.