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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Ben Kyrlach <bk...@hobsons-us.com> on 2009/11/14 16:31:57 UTC

Subversion clent looking for "format" in wrong place?

I'm pretty sure I must be doing something really stupid. I have server running SVN 1.6.0 that all of our developers access via SVN+SSH. That server works just fine, no complaints whatsoever. So, now I'm tasked with migrating the repositories to a new SVN server. While I was at it, I figured I'd upgrade to the latest SVN version too. So, I have a new server running SVN 1.6.6. I've copied all my repositories over to the new server. However, when I try to do a checkout, I get the following error message.

# svn co svn+ssh://my_svn_server/abcd/trunk abcd
svn: Can't open file '/mnt/fs/repositories/abcd/trunk/format': Permission denied

Now, AFAIK, the server shouldn't have a directory named branches inside of "/mnt/fs/repositories/abcd". There is a file named format in "/mnt/fs/repositories/abcd" which is what I think it should be looking for. Just for kicks and giggles, I tried...

# svn co svn+ssh://my_svn_server/abcd abcd

And that generates this error message...

svn: Can't open file '/mnt/fs/repositories/abcd/format': Permission denied

Now, maybe this is just a simple permissions issue, but the first error message leads me to believe that it is trying to access directories and files on the server that don't exist. Any ideas?

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Re: Subversion clent looking for "format" in wrong place?

Posted by Andrey Repin <an...@freemail.ru>.
Greetings, Ben Kyrlach!

> I'm pretty sure I must be doing something really stupid. I have server
> running SVN 1.6.0 that all of our developers access via SVN+SSH. That server
> works just fine, no complaints whatsoever. So, now I'm tasked with migrating
> the repositories to a new SVN server. While I was at it, I figured I'd
> upgrade to the latest SVN version too. So, I have a new server running SVN
> 1.6.6. I've copied all my repositories over to the new server. However, when
> I try to do a checkout, I get the following error message. 

> # svn co svn+ssh://my_svn_server/abcd/trunk abcd
> svn: Can't open file '/mnt/fs/repositories/abcd/trunk/format': Permission denied

Pretty typical issue with svn+ssh setup. You have wrong permissions on repository.


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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.11.2009, <18:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...

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