Ra_serf fails during checkout

[Murli Varadachari <mv...@facebook.com>]

I installed the latest version of serf ³0.1.2² on a linux ³2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
³ host. I then built the latest stable client version of subversion ³1.4.6²
using this installed version of serf ( --with-serf=/xxxx --without-neon)

My subversion server is based on 1.4.5.

I am able to run ³svn ls² and other svn reporting commands. However when I
attempt to  checkout a fairly large set of sources I get this error. ==>

ue Jan 15 23:15:56 2008] [error] [client 10.16.5.106] Provider encountered
an error while streaming a REPORT response.  [500, #0]
[Tue Jan 15 23:15:56 2008] [error] [client 10.16.5.106] A failure occurred
while driving the update report editor  [500, #190004]
[Tue Jan 15 23:15:56 2008] [info] [client 10.16.5.106] (32)Broken pipe:
core_output_filter: writing data to the network


If I run  ³svn ‹version²  here is what I see

svn, version 1.4.6 (r28521)
   compiled Jan 15 2008, 22:15:53

Copyright (C) 2000-2007 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Access repository via WebDAV protocol through serf.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

Has anyone seen this error  before. Any help will be appreciated.

Cheers
murli