svn cleanup: sqlite: database disk image is malformed

Question

I was trying to do a svn cleanup because I can\'t commit the changes in my working copy, and I got the following error:

sqllite: databas

Answer 1

After a power blackout, I ran into the database disk image is malformed error and the suggested reindex nodes command did not fix all issues due to violated constraints. Also the procedure described in http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201111.mbox/%3C874nybhpxi.fsf@stat.home.lan%3E did not resolve the problem.

Solution in my case:

• Checkout the svn repository again into a temporary folder
• Copy, i.e. replace, the file ".svn/wc.db" from the new checkout to the corrupt one

This may be useful, if your original svn checkout contains many modified or unversioned files and you don't want to switch to a fresh svn checkout.