SVN repository does not startup
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
SVN repository unable to startup.
The following appears in the atlassian-fisheye-<date>.log:
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2013-08-16 11:36:41,850 WARN [qtp20978984-20503 ] / ContextHandler$Context-log - Exception while dispatching incoming RPC call
com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.UnexpectedException: Service method 'public abstract void com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.admin.client.RepositoryAdminRpcService.startRepository(java.lang.String) throws com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.admin.shared.InvalidRepositoryStateException,com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.admin.shared.AuthorizationException,com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.admin.shared.OperationFailureException,com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.admin.shared.NoSuchRepositoryException' threw an unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.encodeResponseForFailure(RPC.java:389)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RPC.invokeAndEncodeResponse(RPC.java:579)
at com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.servlet.GwtRPCRoutingServlet.invokeRequest(GwtRPCRoutingServlet.java:73)
at com.atlassian.fecru.gwt.servlet.GwtRPCRoutingServlet.processCall(GwtRPCRoutingServlet.java:51)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet.processPost(RemoteServiceServlet.java:248)
at com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.doPost(AbstractRemoteServiceServlet.java:62)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:755)
…
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.fisheye.svn.Svn2RepositoryEngine.getEarliestInState(Svn2RepositoryEngine.java:162)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.svn.Svn2RepositoryEngine.initialiseRepositoryStatus(Svn2RepositoryEngine.java:140)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.RepositoryEngine.start(RepositoryEngine.java:227)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.RepositoryHandle.run(RepositoryHandle.java:409)
at com.cenqua.fisheye.config.DefaultRepositoryManager.runRepository(DefaultRepositoryManager.java:346)
at com.atlassian.fisheye.spi.admin.impl.DefaultRepositoryAdminService.start(DefaultRepositoryAdminService.java:1228)
Cause
Bug report FE-5370 - A spurious FileLockException is thrown when a repository throws an exception on startup
Resolution
Upgrade to Fisheye 3.7.1, 3.8.0 or later where the bug has been fixed or completely re-index the repository:
Stop the repository.
Backup and delete the index folder at
FISHEYE_INST/var/cache/<reponame>Start the repository.
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