I’m logged into our Linux web server via SSH. There are only three modifided files in my SVN repository, and I’ve typed svn ci -m "message" to commit them. I’ve been committing files all morning without any trouble, but now svn is hanging trying to send the first file!
My screen currently looks like this:
Sending path/to/my/file.php
^C
^C
.
This ^C of course is where, after several minutes of waiting, I tried to cancel the operation using Control-C. The blank lines are where I pressed Enter just to make sure my SSH connection was still active.
I logged in again and performed an svn status on the repo, and it shows that everything’s locked.
What’s going on here?? What can I do to rescue my repo and get it to commit normally again?
I ran into the exact same symptom, and in my case it turned out to be an RPC lock issue. I access my repo using file: locally and over NFS, and via svn+ssh:.
I couldn’t commit from any client, but everything else worked fine.
Apparently an NFS client got out of whack and left a lock on the repo. ( Probably my MacBook using WIFI, which has proven to be an unreliable NFS client in general. )
Restarting statd and lockd on the server housing the repo immediately resolved the issue.