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Re: [Subclipse-users] repository exploration hangs during "Fetching children"

From: Mark Phippard <markp_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2006-10-31 20:35:17 CET

Ben Liblit <liblit@cs.wisc.edu> wrote on 10/31/2006 02:27:47 PM:

> Mark Phippard wrote:
> > This dialog is a confusing feature that JavaSVN added. Basically,
> > what that dialog wants to ask you is the username you want to use in
> > SVN for the operations. Some people do not want to use the ID they
> > login to SSH with within SVN.
>
> Oh, I see. That makes sense.
>
> The dialog won't let me click "OK" until I type *something* in the
> password field, though it turns out to not matter what I actually type
> there. Presumably this is because the SSH connection will use existing
> Kerberos credentials and therefore not actually use the password I type
> at all.
>
> I consider this to be a minor UI glitch. Nice to fix eventually but not

> really the core problem at hand.
>
> > Maybe something about what you are entering in the dialog if causing
> > the hang? I think that the JavaSVN SSH can also be susceptible to
> > unexpected feedback from the SSH server.
>
> I'm not entering anything unusual in that dialog. The "Repository:",
> "Username:", and "Save Password:" fields are left at their initial
> values. The "Password:" field is irrelevant, to the extent that either
> a correct or an incorrect password yields the same behavior: first
> expansion of a repository disclosure arrow works, but after that things
> get stuck.
>
> As for "unexpected feedback from the SSH server" ... how would I
> diagnose that? Is there anything I can do here to figure out if that's
> what is going on?

The JavaSVN devs have not been monitoring this list much lately. I assume
they monitor their own lists, so I would suggest asking over on their
list. See info on bottom of this page:

http://tmate.org/svn/kb/index.html

If you find anything out, please report back.

Mark

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