[joehni@beaver proxytoys]$ svnadmin recover /home/projects/proxytoys/scm
Repository lock acquired.
Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
svn: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: /home/projects/proxytoys/scm/db/log.0000000038: log file open failed: Permission denied
svn: bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 38: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: txn_checkpoint: log failed at LSN [38 1984] DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
svn: bdb: /home/projects/proxytoys/scm/db/log.0000000038: log file open failed: Permission denied
svn: bdb: PANIC: Permission denied
svn: bdb: DB_ENV->log_put: 38: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

[joehni@beaver proxytoys]$ ll scm/db
total 2904
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 200704 Feb 16 15:19 changes
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 28672 Feb 16 15:19 copies
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 1738 Apr 8 2004 DB_CONFIG
rw-rr- 1 root proxytoys 2066 Jan 16 04:03 log.0000000038
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 196608 Feb 16 15:19 nodes
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 176128 Feb 16 15:19 representations
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 8192 Feb 16 15:19 revisions
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 2297856 Feb 16 15:19 strings
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 32768 Feb 16 15:19 transactions
rw-rw-r- 1 proxytoys proxytoys 8192 Feb 16 15:19 uuids

Let me know if that seems sufficiently fixed.

thanks for your quick response, but no, not resolved yet:

bash-2.05b$ svn co svn+ssh://svn.proxytoys.codehaus.org/home/projects/proxytoys/scm/trunc/proxytoys
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /home/projects/proxytoys/scm/db:
Permission denied
bash-2.05b$ svn co svn://svn.proxytoys.codehaus.org/proxytoys/scm/trunc/proxytoys
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /home/projects/proxytoys/scm/db:
Permission denied

• Jörg

chmod'd.

Try now?