Troubleshooting SVK

Debugging Modes

See the output from `svk help environment` for a complete list of options.

Turn on Perl backtrace

export SVKSVNBACKTRACE=1

Change logging level

export SVKLOGLEVEL=DEBUG

Mirror Bugs

RA layer request failed: REPORT request failed

Try disabling pipelining by changing SVK/Mirror/Backend/SVNRa.pm's has_replay to always return 0 for now. See this thread for details -- http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/svk-devel/2007-March/000675.html car shipping

The above did not work for me under 2.x. I also attempted to skipto HEAD (svk sync -s HEAD //mirror/path) which failed. Finally, I detached the mirror and rechecked out to a new path (using the skipto option of sync to spped up the process).

UPDATE: That did not work due to the bug below. Fixing that bug still resulted in the REPORT request failed error.

Directory does not exist

Does svk give you problems about a non-existent directory? See "Mirror Bugs" in SVKSucks for how to repeat. The fix is to use svk pe svm:mirror to delete the bogus mirror.