Re: Minor problem extracting from SVN repository

[Geoffrey Winn <ge...@googlemail.com>]

On 30/04/06, Geoffrey Winn <ge...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/04/06, Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>
> > On 4/28/06, Geoffrey Winn <ge...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I've tried to retrieve the source for an Apache incubator project from
> > an
> > > SVN repository using the following command.
> > >
> > > E:> svn checkout
> > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/cpp
> > >
> > > When I do this for the first time, (ie extracting into an empty
> > directory) I
> > > get what looks like a failure
> > >
> > > svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default'
> > > svn: REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (
> > > http://svn.apache.org )
> >
> > libsvn_ra_dav has some rather unfortunate error messages...  That's
> > one of them.  It's totally unclear what the cause was, just that
> > something went wrong during the processing of the update report.
> >
> > > However, if I then issue the exact same command again, the extract
> > works
> > > without a problem and lots of files get fetched.
> >
> > It's rather difficult to say what the cause is, maybe some sort of
> > network issue?  If you could get an ethereal trace of the network
> > traffic when the problem occurs that might shed some light on it, but
> > I understand if you'd say that's a bit much to ask...
> >
> > -garrett
>
>
> I don't know what "an ethereal trace" is - sorry. If you could give me a
> pointer I'd be willing to give it a go.
>
> Geoff.
>

Please ignore my previous post. By pure accident I've discovered that when I
switch off the Internet firewall that I usually run, the problem goes away
and the svn checkout command just works. I probably should have thought of
this sooner. I'm going to look into what I need to configure in the firewall
to allow svn to work as it should.

Thanks for your help.

Geoff.