Strange svnlite error, database disk image is malformed on Pi3

[bob prohaska]

Just ran svnlite up /usr/src on a Pi3 and got
svn: E155004: Run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for det
ails)
svn: E155004: Working copy '/usr/src' locked.
svn: E155004: '/usr/src' is already locked.
root at www:/usr/src # svnlite cleanup .
svn: E200030: sqlite[S11]: database disk image is malformed
svn: E200042: Additional errors:
svn: E200030: sqlite[S11]: database disk image is malformed

Any hint as to what's wrong or how to recover would be much apprediated.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska