[CentOS] Subversion: 400 Bad request error

Fri Aug 11 15:51:35 UTC 2006
Jean Figarella <jfigarella at vecna.com>

Here is my problem,
On my network there is a subversion server to which everybody connects 
to and checks in/out code and documents. The workstations on the network 
are all based on Fedora core 3. And everybody's home directory is on a 
nfs share. This nfs share is mounted via the fstab. So no matter to 
which box a user logs in, his/her home dir is gonna be the same.

Again, /home is a nfs mounted dir. Now, if I am on Fedora and I cd into 
/home/jean/dev/ for exmaple, and then I do svn update everything works 
fine. But if I do the same on centos 4.3; cd /home/jean/dev and then svn 
update, it gives me this error:

bash-3.00$ cd ~/dev/sysadmin/
bash-3.00$ svn update
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/code/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/code/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request 
(https://subversion)
bash-3.00$
bash-3.00$ cd /local/new_dev/sysadmin/
bash-3.00$ svn update
At revision 30009.
bash-3.00$

As you can see if I am still on centos and I create a /local on the 
*local drive*, then I can check out code or documents there and do 
everything else. Again, while I am on the nfs mounted dir it does not 
works, once I get out of the nfs dir then it works.

Authentication is done via NIS, so uid and gid is the same under both 
distributions and computers. I also checked nfs access permision on the 
/etc/exports files and both computers or hosts have the same set of 
permissions.

The subversion version on Fedora is 1.2.1 and in centos 4.3 it is 1.1.4. 
I have already tried upgrading to the same subversion version and to 
more recent ones, and that did not work.

I am thinking that maybe this is not a subversion error because I can 
sucessfully use it from fedora 3 anf 5, and debian. I think it has to do 
with CentOS. I was looking to upgrade all of the FC3 boxes in my network 
to CentOS (about 30 of them), but with this problem Ill have to stick 
with Fedora.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jean