On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Jean Figarella wrote:
On my CentOS I cannot check out code anywhere on my NFS-mounted home. svn simply does not work on the NFS. I tried other users and the same thing happens. I've tried mounting the home directory manually, double checked that uids and gids are correct, upgraded to subversion-1.3.2-1 and nfs utils version, checked the /etc/export file from the nfs server, and everything looks right. I don't know why I CentOS giving me this problem.
Before you start down the long, dark road to strace and tcpdump, do you know if nscd is running on the CentOS box? If not, try starting it:
/sbin/service nscd start
That's often helped me resolve odd problems on redhat-esque systems that get auth info over the network.
After that, strace would be my first troubleshooting tool of choice:
cd /somewhere/in/nfs/home/dir strace -o /tmp/svn.trace svn co [....]
The /tmp/svn.trace file will show you the system calls that preceded svn giving up and reporting an error.