Usually you wouldn’t get ‘bad request’ errors from httpd unless Subversion sends a bad request. Server side errors as disk io are usually reported by other error codes, such as 500.
Most bad cases of status 400 are caused by firewall and antivirus products that somehow alter requests in unexpected ways. Another ‘expected’ case of this error is when Subversion sends too many headers to the server; we see this in some commits of subtrees with hundreds of locks. The investigation for this error code should start in the server log.
Except for that too much header data, the Subversion client should never generate a request that the server thinks is ‘bad’. That is what it tells with status 400.
But as noted before: more details should be in the server log (and often in the response body itself… but if there was usable data there Subversion should have noted that)
Bert
From: Yves Martin [mailto:ymart...@gmail.com]
Sent: dinsdag 8 december 2015 12:10
To: Subversion <us...@subversion.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Unexpected HTTP status 400 'Bad request'.
Hello,
This is just the Subversion operational log generated by mod_dav_svn. The interesting things would be in the apache access and/or error logs.
(Depending on the configuration of your apache these could be the same logfile)
The operational log just shows successful Subversion operations, so that doesn’t tell us much why a request failed.
Bert
please try raising HTTPD's LogLevel to "Debug" or higher. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#loglevel Perhaps that will shed more light on the problem.