SVN error running context: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Question

I\'ve created an SVN repo on my Debian Wheezy build server following this tutorial. svn --version gives 1.6.17.

Sadly, I can\'t commit anymore

Answer 1

As I was reading over the thread, it seems like some problems in the WEBDAV implementation on client site crashing the apache-thread. I had other issues with pre 1.8 repositories and I solved most of them by dump/reload the whole repository into a new one (using "svnadmin upgrade" is not sufficient!). Pre 1.8 repos have sometimes "corrupt/obsolete" data in revision files which is ignored by clients. It seems that this could cause the segfault.

You can dump/reload your repository like this:

svnadmin create newrepos
svnadmin dump oldrepos | svnadmin load newrepos

Note that it could take a tremendous amount of time to perform an update/reload cycle (approx. 1GB/h +- 50% depending mostly on disk speed).

If you have a different time, please post your time, I am doing a private research of dump/reload cycle performances.