SVN E155016 The working copy database at … is corr

Question

My computer exploded while in the middle of an svn (version 1.8.8) update command. Now svn does nothing just tells me the working copy is corrupt.

svn: E155016 The working copy database at [dir] is corrupt

I have no idea what to do, any suggestions?

Answer 1

I solved the issue with a cleanup + revert + update (in that order)

Answer 2

When I removed the complete folder, repeated the checkout I got the same error....
So it seems consistent!

However,I was checking out into . (currentDir)

When I then checkout out into another directory it worked fine!?!?!
So much for transparent misbehaviours.....

Environment

• DISK: NTFS disk mounted into a ubuntu 18.04 guest
• CLIENT: svn, version 1.9.7 (r1800392)
• SERVER: version 1.7.10 (r1485443)

Answer 3

Cleanup

Try svn cleanup in your working copy

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svn.c.cleanup.html

New checkout

Try to make a new checkout to different place. If new checkout works properly, delete the corrupted one and replace it with new checkout.