Comments on: subversion ‘can’t open activity db’

By: WebDAV経由でsvnリポジトリにコミットできなくてハマった｜ SNS開発者の雑記帳

WebDAV経由でsvnリポジトリにコミットできなくてハマった｜ SNS開発者の雑記帳 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:15:36 +0000

[...] [Wed May 27 14:28:14 2009] [error] [client 202.218.216.13] Could not create activity /repos/tmprepo/!svn/act/c41a20c5-6b08-4c73-9da5-e41a2da69086. [500, #0] [Wed May 27 14:28:14 2009] [error] [client 202.218.216.13] could not open dbm files. [500, #2] [Wed May 27 14:28:14 2009] [error] [client 202.218.216.13] Can't open activity db: No such file or directory [500, #2] どうやらsvnの管理情報が書けないエラーのようです。「Could not create activity」でググってみると、どうやらリポジトリ直下にdavディレクトリを作成しなければならないらしい。 mkdir /path/to/repo/dav しかし、別件で作成したリポジトリはそんなことしなくても良かったのになと思ったので、もしかしたらsubversionのバージョンによってリポジトリの構造が違うのかもと思ったら、やっぱりそうらしいです。 After some time searching around for others that had encountered this error, I was able to determine that the problem was that version 1.5 of the svnadmin create command doesn’t create a “dav” directory in the repository, unlike earlier versions. via: subversion ‘can’t open activity db’| johngirvin.com [...]

By: michael

michael — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:35:24 +0000

Thank you kind sir, may your PageRank be increased by one.

By: Ell

Ell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:08:53 +0000

THANKS – I’ve been fighting this all morning and this was the last step. Whew!

By: Richard Huxton

Richard Huxton — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:50:29 +0000

Thanks – clear explanation. Saved me figuring this out for myself.

By: babak

babak — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:03:09 +0000

Yeah, it worked for me too. Thanks man and good luck on your way ;-)

By: z0n

z0n — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:45:11 +0000

Spot on – fixed it right away – thanks John!

By: Edson Medina

Edson Medina — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:59:05 +0000

You just saved my life. Thanks.

By: Juan Fornos

Juan Fornos — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:48:57 +0000

I had the same problem. Thanks for this solution!