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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by David Della Costa <da...@easy-protest.com> on 2004/05/31 19:44:10 UTC

svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Hi folks,

I've been trying to get subversion set up but I'm having some trouble. 
Searching the mailing list has not yielded any relevant results.  My 
apologies if this has been covered in depth before, I was not able to 
easily find information helping me though.

Basically, I am able to set up the initial repository easily, but I 
cannot import a project.  This is what is going on:

[daved@somesite]$ svn import ./main file:///home/svn/polaris --message 
"Initial repository layout"
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn/polaris'
[daved@somesite]$ ls -al /home/svn/polaris/
total 26
drwxrwxr-x    6 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 .
drwxrwxr-x    3 svn      svn          4096 May 31 15:13 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 conf
drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 dav
-rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell        2 May 31 15:13 format
drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 hooks
drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 locks
-rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell      376 May 31 15:13 README.txt
[daved@somesite]$

I really don't know where to go from here.  I've used CVS for awhile, 
but SVN is new to me.  I'm using version 1.0.1.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave D.


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Re: svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Posted by David Della Costa <da...@easy-protest.com>.
Nope, tried that and got the same:

[daved@somesite main]$ svn import file:///home/svn/polaris --message 
"Initial project import"
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn/polaris'
[daved@somesite main]$


Robert Paulsen wrote:

> On Monday 31 May 2004 02:44 pm, David Della Costa wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I've been trying to get subversion set up but I'm having some trouble.
>>Searching the mailing list has not yielded any relevant results.  My
>>apologies if this has been covered in depth before, I was not able to
>>easily find information helping me though.
>>
>>Basically, I am able to set up the initial repository easily, but I
>>cannot import a project.  This is what is going on:
>>
>>[daved@somesite]$ svn import ./main file:///home/svn/polaris --message
>>"Initial repository layout"
>>svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
>>svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn/polaris'
>>[daved@somesite]$ ls -al /home/svn/polaris/
>>total 26
>>drwxrwxr-x    6 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 .
>>drwxrwxr-x    3 svn      svn          4096 May 31 15:13 ..
>>drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 conf
>>drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 dav
>>-rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell        2 May 31 15:13 format
>>drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 hooks
>>drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 locks
>>-rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell      376 May 31 15:13 README.txt
>>[daved@somesite]$
>>
>>I really don't know where to go from here.  I've used CVS for awhile,
>>but SVN is new to me.  I'm using version 1.0.1.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
> 
> 
> Try the following:
> 
> 	cd ./main
> 	svn import file:///home/svn/polaris
> 

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Re: svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Posted by Robert Paulsen <ro...@paulsenonline.net>.
On Monday 31 May 2004 02:44 pm, David Della Costa wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been trying to get subversion set up but I'm having some trouble.
> Searching the mailing list has not yielded any relevant results.  My
> apologies if this has been covered in depth before, I was not able to
> easily find information helping me though.
>
> Basically, I am able to set up the initial repository easily, but I
> cannot import a project.  This is what is going on:
>
> [daved@somesite]$ svn import ./main file:///home/svn/polaris --message
> "Initial repository layout"
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/svn/polaris'
> [daved@somesite]$ ls -al /home/svn/polaris/
> total 26
> drwxrwxr-x    6 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 .
> drwxrwxr-x    3 svn      svn          4096 May 31 15:13 ..
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 conf
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 dav
> -rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell        2 May 31 15:13 format
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 hooks
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 locks
> -rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell      376 May 31 15:13 README.txt
> [daved@somesite]$
>
> I really don't know where to go from here.  I've used CVS for awhile,
> but SVN is new to me.  I'm using version 1.0.1.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Try the following:

	cd ./main
	svn import file:///home/svn/polaris

-- 
Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.
robert@paulsenonline.net

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Re: svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Posted by Erik Huelsmann <e....@gmx.net>.
Hi,

> [daved@somesite]$ ls -al /home/svn/polaris/
> total 26
> drwxrwxr-x    6 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 .
> drwxrwxr-x    3 svn      svn          4096 May 31 15:13 ..
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 conf
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 dav
> -rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell        2 May 31 15:13 format
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 hooks
> drwxrwxr-x    2 davedell davedell     4096 May 31 15:13 locks
> -rw-rw-r--    1 davedell davedell      376 May 31 15:13 README.txt
> [daved@somesite]$

If this really is the complete list, then a db/ directory is missing. (i.e.
the repository is corrupt)


HTH,

Erik.

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