Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Jean Figarella wrote: > > >> 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$ >> > > On the CentOS box, can you cleanly check out a copy of the repository > to somewhere else in your NFS-mounted home directory? E.g., > > mkdir ~/svn-tmp > cd ~/svn-tmp > svn co [...] > > If so, I'd be interested to compare the output of 'svn info' from the > test checkout with that of the one in ~/dev. > > >> 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. >> > > The presence of the near-ancient Subversion 1.1.4 in RHEL 4/CentOS 4 > is a constant sore spot around my workplace. I feel your pain. :-) > > 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. Thanks for your help. -Jean