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From: Philip Martin <philip.martin@wandisco.com>
To: Nitin Bhide <nitinbhide@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: corrupted svn repository with =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cserialized?=
 hash missing =?utf-8?Q?terminator=E2=80=9D?= error
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:20:48 +0100
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	(Nitin Bhide's message of "Thu, 5 Sep 2013 19:54:51 +0530")
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Nitin Bhide <nitinbhide@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks for the hint. I tried the fsfsverify and fsfixer also. Both did not
> work. Looking back I think the problem started when I upgraded to from
> 1.7.x to 1.8.1.
>
> What exactly is 'serialized hash terminator' error ?

It means one of the repository files is corrupt.  It could be a revision
files in db/revs or it could be a revprop file in db/revprops.  A
serialized hash is a series of K/V pairs followed by END:

K 10
svn:author
V 2
pm
K 8
svn:date
V 27
2013-09-05T18:00:22.881511Z
K 7
svn:log
V 1
m
END

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Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*