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     * [49]Subversion backends
     * [50]TAG blogroll
     * [51]*sigh* another disaster, another nose count...
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Subversion backends

   Tue, 24 May 2005 13:39:05 -0700 (MST)
   Mike Orr ([52]LG Contributing Editor)

   As is all too common with Subversion, LG's repository got wedged with a
   stale lock for the upteenth time.

% svn update
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
/var/svn/linuxgazette.net/db:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery

     [Ben] Due to the odd perms (particularly the 'group' settings), you can
     delete the files, but can't "chmod" them. In the above case, there's
     usually one file with the wrong UID or GID ('ls -l' shows the odd one); I
     just copy it to my ~, then copy it back (overwriting the original), then
     run  'svnadmin  recover'.  I used to have a script to automate this
     somewhere...

     Our host runs a cron job that tries to fix these things. -- Heather

   Subversion 1.1 has a new file-based storage backend that's immune to the BDB
   wedging problem. Another site I use switched to it, and said it was easy to
   dump the repository from the old system and restore it in the new one with
   history. Have TAGgers had any good/bad experiences with the new FSFS? Is it
   worth switching LG to it? 

   [53]http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.3 

     [Ben] Might be nice; right now, it requires me to be available (or someone
     else who is familiar with SVN's quirks) if anything breaks, and minimizing
     SPOFs is always a good idea.

     (!) [Heather] On the cheerful recommendation of our host (more notably,
     the lack of complaints from otherwise noisy clients of his that have
     switched) we will be switching to this backend midmonth, after we publish.
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TAG blogroll

   Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:59:07 +0100
   Jimmy O'Regan ([54]joregan from gmail.com)

   TAG members' blogs are getting more and more mentions, so I rolled up an
   OPML  file (blogroll, whatever) for possible inclusion in this month's
   'Gazette Matters' section. (It'd probably be nice to have some sort of
   static location for an updateable file, but I'll worry about that next
   month).

   Comments?

   If anyone wants in, fill out the template:

<outline title="" description="" xmlUrl="" htmlUtl=""/>

   If anyone wants out, just say so.

                       See attached [55]tag.opml.xml

     (!) [Heather] I don't 'blog, I just occasionally pipe in on the TAG blurb
     about what's going on in the rest of things. But I do read them. Thanks,
     Jimmy!
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*sigh* another disaster, another nose count...

   Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:19:31 -0700
   Heather Stern ([56]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   As an editor I have to say, this is not the kind of message I enjoy having
   to send out, much less that we've had to send out what seems like so many
   times in the last year. 

     [Ben] [sigh] Yeah. Dammit.

   Nonetheless we cannot in good conscience fail to say it. 

   Could those among our scattered crew who live in the waterlogged zones under
   or  near the hurricane's path please report on your successful escape?
   Thanks, and our hopes go out to you - and everyone out there. 

     [Ben] The bad part of it is that we don't have any location information on
     people other than country (at best.) Those who are in trouble are not
     likely to respond; those who can respond - and I don't mean to minimize
     them, but net access isn't a survival necessity - are probably in a lot
     less trouble than they could be. Perhaps we should start collecting
     people's missile addresses, for future use...

     [Jimmy] I [57]published mine already:

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