SVN Commit Error: Can’t close activity db
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Recently, I moved one of my SVN repositories onto a new server. Everything seemed fine until I tried to commit.
SVN complained:
svn commit . --message ‘….’
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Can’t close activity db: Error string not specified yet
And the server logs show:
[Wed Dec 03 22:53:20 2008] [error] [client 207.7.129.212] Could not create activity /svn/!svn/act/cc8c14b8-904b-4438-872d-e129baae67bb. [500, #0]
[Wed Dec 03 22:53:20 2008] [error] [client 207.7.129.212] could not close dbm files. [500, #89026]
[Wed Dec 03 22:53:20 2008] [error] [client 207.7.129.212] Can’t close activity db: Error string not specified yet [500, #89026]
Turns out, DAV keeps some cache files around in your SVN ‘dav’ directory. Removing all the ‘activ*’ files solved my problem.
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