SVN error “no such table: wcroot” when trying to checkout a repo

Question

I'm trying to do an initial checkout of a repository hosted on the network. The checkout fails with the error message "svn: E200030: no such table: wcroot". Googling does not seem to help. What does this error message mean, and what is the diagnosis?

My SVN binary version is 1.7.1 (r1186859).

Thanks!

(re-posted from programmers.stackexchange, as it was closed there)

Answer 1

I don't know what exactly this message means. From this i understand that there is a wc.db file created in the directory you are trying to checkout that is not initialized properly and the wcroot table is missing.

As you are doing a clean checkout, i would suggest you to check if a directory where you try to checkout already exists, if that's the case, remove it or try another directory to checkout.

In my case it was a previous svn co that failed and left the corrupted wc.db in the directory. So removing the directory and checking out again did the trick.

Answer 2

I have the same issue and the problem was exact this: not enough free space on disk. This seems to override the "not enough space" message when the capacity on drive is 0 bytes.

Answer 3

For me Tortoise had shut down a SQL service when it was installing. I rebooted, completely removed all my checkout folders and tried again without issue.