Some repository loading fails because of some symbolic link edge cases.
A symbolic link with executable flag set.
It appears that in this case, the properties must be changed not to the symlink but to its source.
dump: /srv/storage/space/mirrors/code.google.com/sources/v2/code.google.com/s/skal/skal-repo.svndump.gz
$ python3 >>> repo = 'skal-repo' >>> origin_url = 'http://%s.googlecode.com' % repo >>> >>> import logging >>> logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG) >>> >>> from swh.loader.svn.tasks import LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk >>> >>> t = LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk() >>> t.run(svn_url='file:///home/storage/svn/repo/latest/%s' % repo, ... destination_path='/tmp', ... origin_url=origin_url, visit_date='2016-05-03T15:16:32+00:00', ... start_from_scratch=True) DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Creating svn origin for http://skal-repo.googlecode.com DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Done creating svn origin for http://skal-repo.googlecode.com DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Creating origin_visit for origin 1684 at time 2016-05-03T15:16:32+00:00 DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Done Creating origin_visit for origin 1684 at time 2016-05-03T15:16:32+00:00 INFO:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Processing revisions [1-103] for {'swh-origin': 1684, 'remote_url': 'file:///home/storage/svn/repo/latest/skal-repo', 'local_url': b'/tmp/swh.loader.svn.1kb89qaj.tmp/skal-repo', 'uuid': b'2e175d46-24b1-41b6-a7ad-ac97b4d0c617'} ... DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:rev: 41, swhrev: f15e2f3f20705b7a0b98701c4839567c118aaa6d, dir: d252483f1521386e85d11346024b69a79ef44161 DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:rev: 42, swhrev: 8ec6eb017fbcdb291faab4f42a971a9a836e7020, dir: 92da2f8ce6fd67fb065e74c5a7ea567d39186d69 DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:snapshot: {'id': b'Q\x9d\x80-1\xa4\xcdc\xbd\xd6\xedhU$\xa1\x00oO\\\xc7', 'branches': {b'master': {'target': b'\xc5\xbcF\xb7\xa0\x9e\x90\xc5r5\x9d\xa8\x05\xb8mk\xc8\x7f\x11O', 'target_type': 'revision'}}} ERROR:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Loading failure, updating to `partial` status Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-core/swh/loader/core/loader.py", line 862, in load self.store_data() File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/loader.py", line 476, in store_data start_from_scratch=self.start_from_scratch) File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/loader.py", line 295, in process_repository svnrepo, revision_start, revision_end, revision_parents) File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/loader.py", line 395, in process_swh_revisions raise e File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/loader.py", line 375, in process_swh_revisions self.config['revision_packet_size']): File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-core/swh/core/utils.py", line 40, in grouper for _data in itertools.zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=None): File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/loader.py", line 319, in process_svn_revisions for rev, nextrev, commit, new_objects, root_directory in gen_revs: File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/svn.py", line 232, in swh_hash_data_per_revision objects = self.swhreplay.compute_hashes(rev) File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/ra.py", line 374, in compute_hashes self.replay(rev) File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/ra.py", line 359, in replay self.conn.replay(rev, rev+1, self.editor) File "/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh/swh-environment/swh-loader-svn/swh/loader/svn/ra.py", line 175, in close os.chmod(self.fullpath, 0o755) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'/tmp/swh.loader.svn.1kb89qaj.tmp/skal-repo/trunk/script/users' DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Updating origin_visit for origin 1684 with status partial DEBUG:swh.scheduler.task.LoadSWHSvnRepositoryTsk:Done updating origin_visit for origin 1684 with status partial