Another software that stopped working after upgrading to Fedora Core 4 was Subversion. I have two installations of subversion in fact. One uses BDB and the other users FSFS. Since upgrading all my work has been with the FSFS installation and the first time I tried using the BDB version I was in for a nasty suprise.
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository ‘file:///dev/shm/svnmail/Local%20Folders’
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /dev/shm/svnmail/db:
DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
svn: bdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
svn: Unable to open repository ‘file:///dev/shm/svnmail/Local%20Folders’
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /dev/shm/svnmail/db:
DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch
svn: bdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
Fortunately google had a few pages on it and http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/ pointed me to the section of the subversion FAQ with the answers.
The answer however is incomplete. It says to run svnadmin recover but that results in another nasty error.
svn: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
svn: bdb: Skipping log file svnmail/db/log.0000002291: historic log version 8
svn: bdb: svnmail/db/log.0000002292: log file open failed: No such file or directory
svn: bdb: PANIC: No such file or directory
svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 2292: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: Program version 4.3 doesn’t match environment version
svn: bdb: Skipping log file svnmail/db/log.0000002291: historic log version 8
svn: bdb: svnmail/db/log.0000002292: log file open failed: No such file or directory
svn: bdb: PANIC: No such file or directory
svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 2292: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
Fortunately this error can be ignored. I am sure many a geek will have a few more hairs on their heads if the faq had mentioned the fact that the error can eb ignored.
