Apache error 500 with mod_dav_svn, was: svn: PROPFIND request failed upon file add --HELP

[Ernst Johannes <je...@netmesh.us>]

The key problem seems to be that when committing a freshly added file  
via Apache and mod_dav_svn, Apache generates an error 500 ("Internal  
Error"), whose client-side display looks like this:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/websites/trunk/www.metamodel.com/ 
INSTALL.txt'

For apache error log see below. All other operations appear to work  
just fine.

The same operation works fine with 'file' and 'svn+ssh' method, but  
not with http/apache.

So ... is the latest and greatest of Apache and SVN not supported  
(together?) What combination is supposed to work?
And, failing that: if I downgrade the server-side SVN version (to  
1.1.x, for example), will that corrupt / work with my file-based  
storage?


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ernst Johannes <je...@netmesh.us>
> Date: September 1, 2005 10:27:50 PDT
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: svn: PROPFIND request failed upon file add --HELP
>
>
> I'm at the end of my stick, and Google is of no help. I'm getting  
> the following error message, every time I try to add a new file or  
> rename an existing file:
>
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/websites/trunk/www.metamodel.com/ 
> INSTALL.txt'
>
> Of course, it can't do a PROPFIND, the file doesn't exist yet! So  
> what's wrong here?
>
> I doing this, for example:
>
> [jernst]$ svn info INSTALL
> Path: INSTALL
> Name: INSTALL
> URL: <some-url starting with http:// ... edited>
> Repository UUID: 34f2091e-d9fd-0310-bbcc-f5f6c5d413fd
> Revision: 5
> Node Kind: file
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: jernst
> Last Changed Rev: 3
> Last Changed Date: 2005-08-08 13:51:07 -0700 (Mon, 08 Aug 2005)
> Text Last Updated: 2005-09-01 09:44:55 -0700 (Thu, 01 Sep 2005)
> Properties Last Updated: 2005-09-01 09:44:55 -0700 (Thu, 01 Sep 2005)
> Checksum: 3803b5613d4536a4af1c1e95964917c4
>
> [jernst]$ svn mv INSTALL INSTALL.txt
> A         INSTALL.txt
> D         INSTALL
> [jernst]$ svn commit . -m 'add extension to INSTALL file'
> Deleting       www.metamodel.com/INSTALL
> Adding         www.metamodel.com/INSTALL.txt
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/websites/trunk/www.metamodel.com/ 
> INSTALL.txt'
> svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
>
>
> The apache error log says this, at the same time:
>
> [Thu Sep 01 10:05:24 2005] [error] [client 204.145.147.224] (20014) 
> Error string not specified yet: Can't open file '/data/svn/error/ 
> format': No such file or directory
> [Thu Sep 01 10:05:24 2005] [error] [client 204.145.147.224] Could  
> not fetch resource information.  [500, #0]
> [Thu Sep 01 10:05:24 2005] [error] [client 204.145.147.224] Could  
> not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
> [Thu Sep 01 10:05:24 2005] [error] [client 204.145.147.224] Could  
> not open the requested SVN filesystem  [500, #2]
>
> There are some posts of mod_deflate prior to Apache 2.0.48 causing  
> this, but I'm not running either. Otherwise I'm clueless what those  
> things might mean -- for example, I don't have a file /data/svn/ 
> error/format. In fact, I have no idea where it got the directory / 
> data/svn/error from, because I don't have any directory called  
> 'error' anywhere.
>
> My apache config:
>
>     <Location />
>         DAV svn
>         SVNParentPath /data/svn
>
>         AuthType Basic
>         AuthName "SVN Realm"
>         AuthUserFile  ...edited
>         AuthGroupFile ...edited
>         Require group ...edited
>     </Location>
>
>
> This is RedHat, Kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp
> Apache/2.0.54
> svn, version 1.2.3 (r15833), downloaded and compiled fresh last night.
> This is a file-based repository, does not use Sleepycat
> 1.2.1 behaved the same way I believe.
>
>
> Your help, if any, is very much appreciated.
>
>
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