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RE: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cormie
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:25
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin
>
> Hi,
>
> I managed to get back into my bad install of Cygwin and ran
> $strace svn
>
> As you suspected a missing dependency popped up: /usr/bin/cygz.dll
>
> cygz.dll is the only file in the libz0 package:
> $ cyg-apt filelist zlib
> usr/share/doc/
> usr/share/doc/Cygwin/
> usr/share/doc/Cygwin/zlib.README
> usr/share/doc/zlib/
> usr/share/doc/zlib/ChangeLog
> usr/share/doc/zlib/FAQ
> usr/share/doc/zlib/README
>
> chrisc@hamster ~
> $ cyg-apt filelist zlib0
> usr/bin/cygz.dll
>
> In 1.5 setup.ini
> @ subversion
> requires: cygwin libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libintl8
> libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib
>
> In 1.7 setup.ini
> @ subversion
> requires: libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libintl8
> libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib0 cygwin
>
> I added zlib0 to the @ subversion requires and reinstalled
> subversion.
> To my surprise this didn't fix the problem: I found that my
> install of zlib0 was corrupt: the installed.db said it was
> installed when it was not ie cygz.dll not present.
> Reinstalling zlib0 == fixed!
Nice, if you are in the DC/Balto area will buy you a beer.
>
> So I'd suggest the 1.5 @ subversion requires are incomplete (maybe the
> 1.7 ones too, but they are only lacking zlib, not zlib0 and
> zlib doesn't look critical).
>
> The other people who are suffering the sudden svn failures
> could also try
>
> $strace svn
>
>
> and if cygz.dll is the problem, reinstall zlib0 to fix the problem.
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
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