svn-fast-export.py crashes with too many open files

I've seen this before and believe it's non-trivial to fix. It may well be a bug in the python bindings to svn?

Try svn-fast-export.c instead. It has worked for e in the past when I've encountered this bug in the python script.

Unfortunately, I've not been successful building svn-fast-export.c under Hardy. I will try to paste the build errors a little later.

Similar problem under Jaunty Jackalope w/Bazaar 2.0.1 & fast-import 0.9.0dev

Exporting revision 535... done!
Exporting revision 536... /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/svn/core.py:52: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has been deprecated as of Python 2.6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 225, in <module>
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/svn/core.py", line 288, in run_app
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 172, in crawl_revisions
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 119, in export_revision
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 30, in dump_file_blob
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/libsvn/fs.py", line 588, in svn_fs_file_contents
svn.core.SubversionException: ("Can't open file 'var/svn/db/revs/471': Too many open files", 24)
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 38, in apport_excepthook
ImportError: No module named packaging_impl

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 225, in <module>
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/svn/core.py", line 288, in run_app
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 172, in crawl_revisions
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 119, in export_revision
  File "/home/peterc/.bazaar/plugins/fastimport/exporters/svn-fast-export.py", line 30, in dump_file_blob
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/libsvn/fs.py", line 588, in svn_fs_file_contents
svn.core.SubversionException: ("Can't open file 'var/svn/db/revs/471': Too many open files", 24)
Export to majorplanet.fi exited with error code 1.
peterc@wimpey-ubuntu:~$ bzr --version
Bazaar (bzr) 2.0.1
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.6.2
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.6
  Platform: Linux-2.6.28-14-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-9.04-jaunty
  bzrlib: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: /home/peterc/.bazaar
  Bazaar log file: /home/peterc/.bzr.log

Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Canonical Ltd.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/

bzr comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. bzr is free software, and
you may use, modify and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License version 2 or later.

peterc@wimpey-ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

peterc@wimpey-ubuntu:~$ bzr plugins
bzrtools 2.0.0
    Various useful commands for working with bzr.

cvsps_import
    A plugin for converting from CVS to bzr using a cvsps changeset listing.

email
    Sending emails upon commit with information about the commit.

fastimport 0.9.0dev
    FastImport Plugin

launchpad 2.0.1
    Launchpad.net integration plugin for Bazaar.

netrc_credential_store 2.0.1
    Use ~/.netrc as a credential store for authentication.conf.

pqm 1.3.0
    Functionality for controlling a Patch Queue Manager (pqm).

sear...

I'm closing this as invalid as bzr-fastimport is no longer shipping fastexporters for other version control systems.