Reputation: 29375

Working copy XXX locked and cleanup failed in SVN

I get this error when I do an svn update:

Working copy XXXXXXXX locked Please execute "Cleanup" command

When I run cleanup, I get

Cleanup failed to process the following paths: XXXXXXXX

How do I get out of this loop?

Upvotes: 603

Answers (30)

srk

Reputation: 1901

In my case, I got an error message like the following:

sqlite[S8]: attempt to write a readonly database

I learned that it was a permissions issue. I am working on Windows, so I can the command again as Administrator, and it worked.

Upvotes: 0

Hamdhan Azeez T

Reputation: 498

just execute the cleanup option available in tortoise client

if it throws error check break write locks available in the cleanup option

Upvotes: 0

Maia

Reputation: 71

As exactly this answer is not listed here: my solution was to close my IDE (in this case Netbeans). Seems like the IDE had locked the file.

Upvotes: 0

Off The Gold

Reputation: 1236

The clean up did not work for me no matter how many ways I tried. Instead from Visual Studio I committed each folder individually. Then I committed the top folder and was successful.

Upvotes: 0

ShivaKumar

Reputation: 31

While doing svn update using tortoise svn, the process got interrupted and stopped complaining the file is in use. Next it asked me to use CleanUp command on the folder. I tried to run CleanUp command but it failed to do so. Then I found a command shell which was using the folder files. So, I closed the command shell and checked if any editor is using the files related to it. We need to close them as well. Again, I tried CleanUp on the folder with options Break locks,revert changes,clear working copy status . The CleanUp went successfully. Then finally able to update my svn folder.

Upvotes: 0

LoveForDroid

Reputation: 1142

For me none of the above solutions worked. I found a solution by breaking locks. When I performed svn cleanup, I selected "Break Locks" along with "Clean up working copy status".

Upvotes: 39

Dmitry Borisov

Reputation: 31

I often get such an issue. My pattern that causes cleanup problems.

I open image file in viewer.
I delete image file/folder.
I am trying to commit/update

Closing image viewer where deleted file is opened solves the problem. Maybe other software can block cleanup the same way.

In general. I believe restarting computer may help in such cases.

Upvotes: 2

BradS

Reputation: 1925

For me, the trick was to run svn cleanup at the top of my working copy, not in the folder where I'd been working the whole time before the problem occurred.

Upvotes: 489

Mark Sowul

Reputation: 10610

For me, it was actually Tortoise's fault, sort of. Tortoise just complained "cannot clean up, run clean up", but when I ran the command line (svn cleanup), it clearly told me that it couldn't delete some files that were in use, the solution to which was obvious. Once I closed Visual Studio (which was keeping the files open), then the cleanup worked fine.

Other programs can also keep files open in the repo causing this issue. Excel holding an xls open was a culprit in another instance so it may be wise to close all programs that may be using anything in the repo or even rebooting to force programs to close out and then trying cleanup again.

Upvotes: 11

Hiren Patel

Reputation: 52810

Easiest way ever:

Go to Parent directory(Folder) of Project.
Pres Right click
Press on TortoiseSVN then Press Clean up...
Clean up dialog would appear automatically
Select Clean up working copy status, Break locks, Fix time stamps, Vacuum pristine copies, Refresh shell overlays, Include externals
Pres OK

You did your job successfully.

Check the screen shots for your reference.

First step:

Second step: Enable the Break lock option(second check box in cleanup popup window)

Hope this will help you a lot.

Upvotes: 115

Swapnil Kale

Reputation: 3040

First of all tried many solutions, then I just deleted the folder in which I was having trouble.

And then performed SVN Update.

That worked for me.

I would not recommend it, but nothing worked but this. :(

Upvotes: 0

Alejandro Pablo Tkachuk

Reputation: 2256

One reason for this problem I haven't seen in the answers is that an update or checkout may have been done with other user/permissions, like for example with $sudo.

Upvotes: 0

dreamzor

Reputation: 5925

For me, the problem was with completely full disk drive (linux inodes in my case), when i deleted some folders it started working again.

The error was the following (on any svn action):

$ svn cleanup
svn: E155004: Run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)
svn: E155004: Working copy locked; try running 'svn cleanup' on the root of the working copy ('/my/directory') instead.
svn: E155004: Working copy '/my/directory' locked
svn: E200030: sqlite[S14]: unable to open database file
svn: E200030: Additional errors:
svn: E200030: sqlite[S14]: unable to open database file

Upvotes: 1

swiftBoy

Reputation: 35783

Today I have experienced above issue saying

svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

And here is my solution, got working

Closed Xcode IDE, from where I was trying to commit changes.
On Mac --> Go to Terminal --> type below command

svn cleanup <Dir path of my SVN project code>

exmaple:

svn cleanup /Users/Ramdhan/SVN_Repo/ProjectName

Hit enter and wait for cleanup done.
Go To XCode IDE and Clean and Build project
Now I can commit my all changes and take update as well.

Hope this will help.

Upvotes: 0

Jayaguru

Reputation: 39

To do the clean up

Delete the .svn folder.
Do the svncheckout in the root folder.
Try performing the clean up operation.

This got my issue resolved.

Upvotes: 1

Gad D Lord

Reputation: 6782

In my case I solved it by manually deleting a record in the SQLite ".svn\wc" file lock record in the WC_LOCK table.

I opened the "WC" file with SQLite editor and executed

delete from WC_LOCK

screenshot showing all entries purged from WC_LOCK

Following eakkas's comment, you might need to delete all the entries from WORK_QUEUE table as well.

Upvotes: 111

Chuck

Reputation: 8272

One approach would be to:

Copy edited items to another location.
Delete the folder containing the problem path.
Update the containing folder through Subversion.
Copy your files back or merge changes as needed.
Commit

Another option would be to delete the top level folder and check out again. Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.

Upvotes: 525

Sadikhasan

Reputation: 18601

I am sure It working fine for you

Goto top level SVN folder.

Right Click on folder(that has your svn files) -> TortoiseSVN -> CleanUp

This will surely solve your problem.

Upvotes: -4

Suncat2000

Reputation: 1135

In my case, a Windows 7 machine running TortoiseSVN failed to rename a folder completely. No combination of cleanup, update, or rename operations would fix the problem. The folder was originally created with different case and Tortoise or Subversion would not change it to what was in the repository.

My solution was to:

Copy the folder through Windows Explorer (without Subversion control files) outside the project.
Delete and commit the folder through TortoiseSVN.
Copy the folder back with the correct (current) name through Windows Explorer.
Add the folder back into the repository through TortoiseSVN.

I performed cleanups after each step. Dreadful solution, but it worked for me.

Upvotes: -1

Chris

Reputation: 4593

These types of problems can be avoided in the first place by using svn copy and svn move etc commands when making changes to your project structure. Remember svn only checks for changes inside files already added to subversion, not changes to the physical directory structure. Please see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.cycle.html

Further, upon committing changes svn first stores a "summary" of changes in a todo list. Upon performing the svn operations in this todo list it locks the file to prevent other changes while these svn actions are performed. If the svn action is interrupted midway, say by a crash, the file will remain locked until svn could complete the actions in the todo list. This can be "reactivated" by using the svn cleanup command. Please see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.cleanup.html

Upvotes: -1

Vinayakkumar

Reputation: 6520

Steps :

Close all editing files from svn folder
Close eclipse or any editor which are using folder or file from svn directory.
Right click on svn check out folder and click on release lock.
Right click on svn check out folder and click on clean.
Your SVN is ready for SVN commit and update operation.

Cheers :)

Upvotes: 1

Nadeem Jamali

Reputation: 1423

In solution explorer, right click on the project, in the opening sub-menu click on subversion and select clean-up. It will solve the problem, as it did for me. Hope it will work.

Upvotes: 1

Brian Ogden

Reputation: 19232

Clean up certainly is not enough to solve this issue sometimes.

If you use TortoiseSVN v1.7.2 or greater, right click on the Parent directory of the locked file and select TortoiseSVN -> Repo Browser from the menu. In the Repro Browser GUI right click the file that is locked and there will be an option to remove the lock.

Upvotes: 0

Matt

Reputation: 41842

A colleague at work constantly sees this message, and for him it's because he deleted a directory under SVN version control without deleting it from SVN, and then created a new directory in its place not under version control, with the same name.

If this is your problem...:

There are different ways to fix it, depending on how/why the directory was replaced.

Either way, you will likely need to:

A) Rename the existing directory to a temporary name

B) Do an SVN revert to recover the directory deleted from the file system, but not from SVN

From there, you would either

A) Copy the relevant files into the directory that was deleted

B) If you had a significant change of contents in the directory, do an SVN delete on the original, commit, and rename your new directory back to the desired name, followed by an SVN add to get that one under version control.

Upvotes: 48

Lance

Reputation: 2933

This one worked for me.

Go to the root folder,
Right click and cleanup
Check all available options
Press ok

After clean up it will allow you to update to the latest version.

Upvotes: 23

Izzy

Reputation: 1816

I know this is a really old thread but I maintain that:

The easiest and safest method to fix this is to delete your hidden ".svn" folder and check everything out again.

It fixes most problems when svn screws around should keep local changes (marked as "conflicted") when you check out the head revision again.

Upvotes: 0

algreat

Reputation: 9012

I had the same problem. Seems it has been fixed in the latest versions. I have updated my Tortoise SVN to the latest version (1.7.11) and clean up has worked well.

You can download the latest version here: downoad tortoise svn.

Upvotes: 0

Intu

Reputation: 1529

Look in your .svn folder, there will be a file in it called lock. Delete that file and you will be able to update. There may be more lock files in the .svn directory of each subdirectory. They will need deleting also. This could be done as a batch quite simply from the command line with e.g.

find . -name 'lock' -exec rm -v {} \;

Note that you are manually editing files in the .svn folder. They have been put there for a reason. That reason might be a mistake, but if not you could be damaging your local copy.

SOURCE : http://www.svnforum.org/2017/viewtopic.php?p=6068

Upvotes: 210

Rohan

Reputation: 881

I came across the exact same issue using SVN 1.7 and none of the fixes mentioned above worked.

Foremost, make sure you backup all your edited content.

After spending a couple of hours (didn't redownload everything as my branch is over 6gb in size), I found that there is a db file called "wc" in the .svn folder of your branch.

Open up the db file using any db manager (i used firefox's sqlite manager plugin) and navigate to WC_LOCK table. This table will have the entries for the acquired locks. Delete the records from the table and you're done :)

Upvotes: 5

HotJard

Reputation: 4818

In Versions under Mac OS: Action -> Cleanup working copy locks at...

Upvotes: 2

Working copy XXX locked and cleanup failed in SVN

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