svn: Error running context: APR does not understand this error code

[Kathy Khaghani]

I am very new to svn. I finally upgraded to subversion-1.6.17, running with apache : Apache/2.0.59 and openssl: Apache/2.0.59

 

First had to configure neon with “—with-ssl” option and then configure subversion with the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-neon --with-ssl

Then make and make install off course.

 

First time I did a commit, seemed like it worked but gave me a warning :

Warning: post-commit FS processing had error 'Can't remove '/users/repos/db/transactions/9208-1.txn''.

 

After that all my commits are failing with the following error:

 

Transmitting file data ..svn: Commit failed (details follow):

svn: Error running context: APR does not understand this error code

 

Again I have been googling all day today and nothing of any use. Would this be a bug with svn 1.6.17? or am I doing something wrong?

 

I would welcome any suggestions.

 

 

Kathy Khaghani
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[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Kathy Khaghani <kkha...@stec-inc.com> wrote:

I am very new to svn. I finally upgraded to subversion-1.6.17, running with apache : Apache/2.0.59 and openssl: Apache/2.0.59

 

First had to configure neon with “—with-ssl” option and then configure subversion with the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-neon --with-ssl

Then make and make install off course.

 

First time I did a commit, seemed like it worked but gave me a warning :

Warning: post-commit FS processing had error 'Can't remove '/users/repos/db/transactions/9208-1.txn''.

 

 

Looks like you've not been careful with ownership of the files or directories in your repository, consistent with whatever serviceds you're accessing it with. In particular, if you access with Apache, the  /users/repo/db/ directory needs write access for the relevant apache user. Isn't that "www-data". And frankly, Apache 2.0 is considered quite old a tthis point. Why are you using it?