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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Ross Mark <ro...@controllingedge.com.au> on 2003/04/11 11:05:12 UTC

MKACTIVITY 400 errors on checkin

I've been running a subversion repository very happily for the past few 
months and have developers working offsite (well another country 
actually) checking in and out without a problem. Two of these developers 
need to switch from Windows to Linux for development. They downloaded 
the 0.20.1 tar ball and built svn on a Mandrake 9 system. They had no 
problems building and installing and the clients they have will checkout 
a repository over http happily. They are unable to do any sort of check 
in . The error they get is

svn: RA layer request failed
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: MKACTIVITY of 
/svn/s4-repository/m32c_recast/!svn/act/04e54fce-0bbb-0310-9a68-865f53077855: 
400 Bad Request

There are no errors in the http logs but in the same token there are no 
visible requests for MKACTIVITY either.

The output from their svn --version is

svn, version 0.20.1 (r5467)
   compiled Apr 11 2003, 17:47:40

Copyright (C) 2000-2003 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
  - handles 'http' schema
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - handles 'svn' schema

The server is svn-0.20.0 with apache 2.0.44

Under windows they used tortisesvn and had no problem.

I personally have no problems with full access from my development 
machine which is RedHat 7.2 based (lots of manual upgrades) and 
svn-0.20.0 using both https and http. My server and development box are 
separate.

I downloaded the 0.20.1 tar ball my self and compiled it on a clean 
RH8.0 system (I first moved the db4 libraries and headers out of the way 
so my client would be similar to theirs) and had no problems checking in 
and out.


Unfortunately they only started to try and checkin as they were about to 
leave for the endof the day so I don't have a lot more information.

Has anyone built svn-0.20.1 (they also tried 0.20.0) on a Mandrake 
system and got it to work?
Any suggestion on what I should ask them to do?

Thanks for any help

Cheers

Ross


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Re: MKACTIVITY 400 errors on checkin

Posted by Ross Mark <ro...@controllingedge.com.au>.
Michael Wood wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:05:12PM +1000, Ross Mark wrote:
>  
>
>>svn: RA layer request failed
>>svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>>svn: MKACTIVITY of 
>>/svn/s4-repository/m32c_recast/!svn/act/04e54fce-0bbb-0310-9a68-865f53077855: 
>>400 Bad Request
>>
>>There are no errors in the http logs but in the same token there are no 
>>visible requests for MKACTIVITY either.
>>    
>>
>
>This sounds like a proxy problem to me.  Are they using an HTTP proxy?
>If so, does it support the extra methods that Subversion needs in order
>to function?
>
>e.g. for Squid, the squid.conf file should include:
>
>extension_methods REPORT MERGE MKACTIVITY CHECKOUT
>
>See the FAQ.
>
>They could also try https instead of http, since the proxy would never
>see the request methods then :)
>  
>
Michael,

You got it spot on. They were using a proxy. I actually think they have 
disable the proxy alltogether now since it was fairly unstable.

Thanks for the help.

Ross

PS we used to use https however since upgrading to 0.20.1  I can't get 
around the certificate verification (self signed cert.) I'm just trying 
to step through the code now to work out why setting 
ssl-ignore-unknown-ca = true isn't working for me.



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Re: MKACTIVITY 400 errors on checkin

Posted by Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:05:12PM +1000, Ross Mark wrote:
> I've been running a subversion repository very happily for the past few 
> months and have developers working offsite (well another country 
> actually) checking in and out without a problem. Two of these developers 
> need to switch from Windows to Linux for development. They downloaded 
> the 0.20.1 tar ball and built svn on a Mandrake 9 system. They had no 
> problems building and installing and the clients they have will checkout 
> a repository over http happily. They are unable to do any sort of check 
> in . The error they get is
> 
> svn: RA layer request failed
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: MKACTIVITY of 
> /svn/s4-repository/m32c_recast/!svn/act/04e54fce-0bbb-0310-9a68-865f53077855: 
> 400 Bad Request
> 
> There are no errors in the http logs but in the same token there are no 
> visible requests for MKACTIVITY either.

This sounds like a proxy problem to me.  Are they using an HTTP proxy?
If so, does it support the extra methods that Subversion needs in order
to function?

e.g. for Squid, the squid.conf file should include:

extension_methods REPORT MERGE MKACTIVITY CHECKOUT

See the FAQ.

They could also try https instead of http, since the proxy would never
see the request methods then :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>

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