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FS#1175 - Subversion seems broken.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 15:00 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 15:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jason Chu (jason)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Subversion seems to be currently broken. I get a lot of errors such as:

[rawler@sc52-114 rawler]$ svn co http://.../svn/buildroot/trunk
svn: XML parser failed in 'trunk'
svn: Malformed XML: junk after document element at line 11

The server in this case runs Debian, but the problem have been verified running against a Gentoo server as well, whilst the clients running on either Gentoo OR Debian seems to work.

This bug halts our work quite drastically. Please fix.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 20:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 16:01 GMT
Can you please supply me with a server that does this? I have tried 3 different servers (one local and two external) that don't give me any problems.
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 16:36 GMT
Hmm, strangely enough, whilst both arch-machines setup at work failed, my machine at home running Arch seems to be able to successfully checkout from both servers.

I guess it must be some problem with the setup at work, and I guess this is now a support-request rather than a bug-report. Any theory on what could be wrong?

If you want to try it yourself, these are the URL:s that failed: (Debian and Gentoo setups in that order)
http://wavestorage.iserv.se/svn/buildroot
http://rawler.rsn.bth.se/svn/repos
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 16:46 GMT
Yeah, it seems to work here too.

If you want a guess, I'll give you that now. I'll do some research later on to try to narrow it down.

My guess is that your expat package is old or bad. Try upgrading it (even if it says it's up to date). Expat is what svn uses for all its XML parsing.
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Friday, 23 July 2004, 17:00 GMT
Sorry, did not solve the problem. :-/
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 21:50 GMT
A little more research into the problem... the error is indeed expat. It has a problem parsing the XML from your repo. I still find it strange that it works in some places and not others.
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 22:14 GMT
On the affected system, what version of apache and neon do you have installed?
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 22:55 GMT
Actually, I think I may have built a theory of my own. I can't really prove it right now, but I'll check it tomorrow.

Subversion does not support hosting repositories on NFS. Perhaps it does not support putting checkouts on NFS either. We have /home mounted over NFS on the two affected systems, and perhaps THAT is what have been causing the problems all along.

I'm sorry I did not tell you this before, but at the time I got the theory I believed the bug was closed anyways, due to lack of reproduceability. Sorry
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 22:59 GMT
I try not to close bugs unless there's actually a resolution ;)

I just didn't have time to look at this one till now.

I'm told by other subversion users that checkout to nfs works fine.
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 23:13 GMT
Well. If so I have no other theory. It uses standard current/extra repos versions of apache and all other dependencies. Still both machines fail.
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 23:34 GMT
Can you give me the output of 'pacman -Q apache; pacman -Q neon'?
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Monday, 23 August 2004, 23:39 GMT
apache 2.0.50-4
neon 0.24.7-1
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Monday, 31 January 2005, 13:26 GMT
in the meantime new svn versions are out ... is this issue still reproducable?
Comment by Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler) - Tuesday, 01 February 2005, 16:38 GMT
Sorry, but I don't have access to the same setup anymore, so I can't really confirm or deny that the bug still exists. :-/

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