Svn connection breaks

["Schroeder, Hartmut" <Ha...@plath.de>]

Hi *

we work with remote Subversion Clients, connected to our Subversion-Server (Version 1.6.16) via VPN-Tunnels. Some of them work fine, the connection to others sometimes shuts down during checkouts or updates with the message on their Tortoise Client "Could not connect to server".

In the Apache (Version 2.2.16) error log we find:



Provider encountered an error while streaming a REPORT response.

A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #620018]

Error writing base64 data: APR does not understand this error code [500, #620018]



A first try was to increase the TimeOut in Apache, but it doesn't help.

Any ideas?



　

Regards

Hartmut

Re: Svn connection breaks

[Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:29:05PM +0000, Schroeder, Hartmut wrote:
> Hi *
> 
> we work with remote Subversion Clients, connected to our Subversion-Server (Version 1.6.16) via VPN-Tunnels. Some of them work fine, the connection to others sometimes shuts down during checkouts or updates with the message on their Tortoise Client "Could not connect to server".
> 
> In the Apache (Version 2.2.16) error log we find:
> 
> 
> 
> Provider encountered an error while streaming a REPORT response.
> 
> A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #620018]
> 
> Error writing base64 data: APR does not understand this error code [500, #620018]
> 
> 
> 
> A first try was to increase the TimeOut in Apache, but it doesn't help.
> 
> Any ideas?

Hard to tell what's going wrong. It seems connections are severed
for some reason. But it's not apparent where the root of the problem
could be. You should try to find out more about the conditions which
cause some connections to fail. Based on the little information you've
provided so far, we're left to making wild guesses.  

So I'll try to guess:

Since you mention VPN: Are the clients behind NAT, and does the VPN properly
support multiple clients connecting from behind the same NAT? If the VPN
is PPTP, a likely problem is a NAT router not supporting PPTP NAT.