subversion fatal error

[Mouse]

I have on my i386 Feisty machine (upgraded to Gutsy):
 + subversion 1.4.4dfsg1-1ubuntu2
 + db4.4 4.4.20-8ubuntu2

When I've updated to db4.4 4.20-8.1ubuntu2, then on any operation with svn I've got:
$ svnadmin create --fs-type bdb /var/lib/svn/repo
svnadmin: Berkeley DB error for filesystem '/var/lib/svn/repo/db' while committing Berkeley DB transaction:
DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svnadmin: bdb: not a restored transaction
svnadmin: bdb: PANIC: Invalid argument

If I downgrade to 4.20-8ubuntu2 all works fine.

[Mouse (a-kachalov)]

Only one thing was affected between versions. It was a configure option in debian/rules:

-ifneq (,$(findstring z$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU)z,$(NPTL_SUPPORTED_CPUS)))
+#ifneq (,$(findstring z$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU)z,$(NPTL_SUPPORTED_CPUS)))
 ifneq (,$(findstring z$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM)z,$(NPTL_SUPPORTED_SYSTEMS)))
 CONFIGURE_SWITCHES += --enable-pthreadsmutexes=yes
 endif
-endif
+#endif

And as a result:
$ ldd 4.20-8/libdb-4.4.so
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d9c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

$ ldd 4.20-8.1/libdb-4.4.so
        linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7ea2000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d58000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

New lib about 4k larger.

[Alexander Bokovoy (abbra)]

Confirm, this breaks Subversion badly.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I cannot confirm the bug using just "svnadmin create --fs-type bdb foo-repo".

But I get a similar problem when trying to work with a bdb-repo from Feisty. See bug 154555.

I'm still investigating, but the change found by Mouse above is the same I've found when looking for differences in Debian/Ubuntu: Debian Bug 441152 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441152) appears similar, but they've done this in the update from -8.1 to -9.

I'll make bug 153996 the metabug for this.