VCS tagging task fails after moving the Subversion server
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Symptoms
Scenario: If the Subversion server needs to be moved to a different machine, permanently or temporarily, the DNS alias will change. For instance, a subversion server is sitting on Machine A with the DNS alias of "svn01" and Bamboo is accessing the repository using a URL similar to: http://svn01/svn/abcd/XXX/yyyy . If the OS on Machine A needs to be upgraded, the repository needs to be transferred to a different machine, Machine B, temporarily. Using svnadmin dump and svnadmin load --force-uuid, the transfer completes successfully . The DNS record for "svn01" is now changed to "dev207". Applying these changes and shutting down Machine A, Bamboo seems to be able to export a working copy from subversion, but the VCS tagging task is failing and causing the build(s) to fail:
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simple 23-May-2013 00:27:22 Copying repository http://svn01/svn/abcd/DELLSC/dellsc_76_rel to http://svn01/svn/abcd/DELLSC/tags/dellsc_76_rel/dellsc76rel1064 at revision 204270
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 Error occurred while running Task 'Tag the successful build(11)'. This build will fail. Caused by:
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskException: Exception when tagging repository
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsTaggingTask.execute(VcsTaggingTask.java:57)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:180)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.execute(TaskExecutorImpl.java:88)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.ExecuteBuildTask.call(ExecuteBuildTask.java:84)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.build(DefaultBuildAgent.java:202)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.waitAndPerformBuild(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:103)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent$1.run(DefaultBuildAgent.java:109)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory$2.run(NamedThreadFactory.java:50)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 Caused by: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: Error while creating tag
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.svn.SvnRepository.createTag(SvnRepository.java:1801)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs.task.VcsTaggingTask.execute(VcsTaggingTask.java:52)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 ... 8 more
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 Caused by: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: File not found: revision 204270, path '/DELLSC/dellsc_76_rel/DELLSC/dellsc_76_rel'
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 svn: '/svn/abcd/!svn/bc/204270/DELLSC/dellsc_76_rel' path not found: 404 Not Found (http://svn01)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:51)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.doGetMergeInfo(DAVRepository.java:1230)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.DAVRepository.getMergeInfoImpl(DAVRepository.java:1125)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.io.SVNRepository.getMergeInfo(SVNRepository.java:2541)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNBasicClient.getReposMergeInfo(SVNBasicClient.java:608)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNCopyDriver.calculateTargetMergeInfo(SVNCopyDriver.java:1711)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNCopyDriver.copyReposToRepos(SVNCopyDriver.java:318)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNCopyDriver.setupCopy(SVNCopyDriver.java:629)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNCopyClient.doCopy(SVNCopyClient.java:426)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.svn.SvnRepository.copyRepository(SvnRepository.java:1759)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 at com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.svn.SvnRepository.createTag(SvnRepository.java:1797)
error 23-May-2013 00:27:22 ... 9 moreCause
Even though this line: "svn: '/svn/abcd/!svn/bc/204270/DELLSC/dellsc_76_rel' path not found: 404 Not Found (http://svn01/)" seems to suggest that the problem is caused by the VCS tagging task still trying to talk to Machine A as svn01 rather than dev207 as svn01, the main problem is not caused by the host change. The root cause of the issue is having a different SVN server version on the new server than the old server. So, compare the versions on the new server with the old server and follow the guidelines provided in the workaround section to fix the problem.
Workaround
This issue was reported for Bamboo 3.4.3 for which the resolution was using svnkit 1.3.8 which is the latest of 1.3 line or downgrading new server's SVN to 1.6. (Using the same version on both servers).
If this does not resolve the problem, an upgrade to the latest version of Bamboo is recommended.
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