On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Neels J Hofmeyr <ne...@elego.de> wrote:
> Today Random Person on #svn reported a problem and later its apparent > solution, and it struck me as rather peculiar: > > [[[ > <yates`> when trying to do an svn cleanup, i get a strange message: > svn: E200030: disk I/O error, executing statement 'COMMIT TRANSACTION;' > > I suspect a reader / writer locking issue with Sqlite. The I/O error as such might be related to the win7 / cygwin combination requiring more retries or such. > this is under win7 using the cygwin svn client > and also tortoisesvn is installed > > ... > > <yates`> neels: i found the issue > > strangely, there is an interaction between tortoisesvn and the cli svn > under > cygwin > > you must disable tortoisesvn's icon caching, then the problem goes away. > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg123745.html > ]]] > I.e. they disabled the background process that will open the working copy soon after the OS detected some file change. The scan itself may take a very long time. Depending on OS and wc details, the db may get opened at some very inconvenient time while the commit is still in progress / in some critical stage. > and > > "I've confirmed what others have stated that it's only a problem with > v3.7.12.1 and NOT a problem with v3.7.3." > > Hmm, disable icon caching to not break wc-ng? Why!? > > I think to remember that access to WCNG is much more exclusive than it used to be in 1.6. But I don't know whether that is actually true not the details. -- Stefan^2. -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
