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tazboy78

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Registered: 2009-03-30

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SVN: Failed to load BDB error after upgrade...

During a recent system upgrade Subversion was upgraded from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4. After the upgrade I couldn't get to the repository through my web server. The log file has this error repeated: Failed to load module for FS type 'bdb'. Using svnadmin and svnlook gave the same errors.

I went back into /var/cache/pacman/pkg and reinstalled 1.6.3. After that everything was working fine.

Can anyone confirm? Should a bug report be opened?

Was this subversion 1.6.4 package compiled without BDB support? Was that intentional or an oversight?

Matthew
Brampton ON

djszapi

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Re: SVN: Failed to load BDB error after upgrade...

Hello tazboy78!

"Was this subversion 1.6.4 package compiled without BDB support? -> You can here the options for configure script.
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/s … iew=markup

It seems in last case you need for converting bdb to fsfs format with svnadmin e.g.:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn. … nt.migrate

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Allan

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Re: SVN: Failed to load BDB error after upgrade...

During a recent system upgrade Subversion was upgraded from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4. After the upgrade I couldn't get to the repository through my web server. The log file has this error repeated: Failed to load module for FS type 'bdb'. Using svnadmin and svnlook gave the same errors.

I went back into /var/cache/pacman/pkg and reinstalled 1.6.3. After that everything was working fine.

Can anyone confirm? Should a bug report be opened?

Was this subversion 1.6.4 package compiled without BDB support? Was that intentional or an oversight?

I remember seeing warnings about bdb being not enabled when I was compiling subversion for the ruby-1.9 update so I never uploaded my version and asked the maintainer to look at it.  I guess the same warning was missed when updating to 1.6.4.  File a bug report.

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tazboy78

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Re: SVN: Failed to load BDB error after upgrade...

Allan, I opened bug report 15972.

djszapi, In the past my repository was FSFS, but when I upgraded to subversion 1.6 I had trouble connecting through Apache. Once I converted to BDB all the problems went away. I hesitate to convert it back at this point.

Matthew