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Subversion: Insufficient NODES rows Error

October 29, 2013 by geekworker

Trying to upgrade an svn repository, I got the the error:

vn: E155016: Insufficient NODES rows for

followed by the path to a file. This can be solved by deleting a certain file type:

Find them:

find . -name dir-prop-revert

To delete them:

find . -name dir-prop-revert -exec rm {} ;

If you’d like to make backups instead:

find . -name dir-prop-revert -exec mv {} {}.backup ;

Now try the upgrade again:

svn upgrade

No more error messages. 🙂

Posted in ArticleTagged subversion, svn
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6 Comments

  1. Guido says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Thx a lot.Worked without any problems!

    Reply
  2. Nils says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    I wonder whether this is due to different versions.

    Either way, thank you for posting updated instructions! Appreciate it.

    Reply
  3. Alan Rogers says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Didn't work for me, because there were no files named "dir-prop-revert". There were however files with names like *.svn-revert:

    > $ find . -name "*revert"
    > ./homework/.svn/text-base/nrmate-qchar.pdf.svn-revert
    > ./homework/.svn/prop-base/nrmate-qchar.pdf.svn-revert

    I removed those like this:

    > $ find . -name "*revert" -exec rm {} ;

    And then "svn upgrade" worked.

    Reply
  4. Miquel Coll says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Thanks, worked like a charm!

    Reply
  5. Great Dude says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Thanx a lot

    Reply
  6. onebeartoe says:
    August 2, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Thank you, sir. This worked for me.

    Reply

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