[CentOS] Subversion: 400 Bad request error

Tue Aug 15 02:09:24 UTC 2006
John Newbigin <jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au>

This sounds like a web proxy issue.  As best I know, snv does not work 
through web proxies.  check your http_proxy environment variable.

John.

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$
> 
> 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
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