svn commit failed with: MKACTIVITY / Could not read status line

Hi list,

It's my first time using subversion. I am getting an error message when
commiting to the svn repository. Here it goes:

# su nobody
(apache2 runs as nobody:nobody)

nobody $ svn create /snv/repository

$ svn co --username rfang1 http://svn_server/repository -m "svn test" \
        /tmp/svn_t
Checked out revision 0.

$ cd /tmp/svn_t
$ echo "abc" > a
$ svn add a

$ svn ci --username rfang1 -m "Added file a." a
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: MKACTIVITY of
/repository/!svn/act/22e64543-75e1-0310-bfdc-c69d88fe7bb9:
Could not read status line: connection was closed by server.
(http://svn_server)

Here is the apache2 error_log:

[Thu Aug 12 09:51:27 2004] [notice] child pid 861 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)
[Thu Aug 12 09:51:27 2004] [notice] child pid 862 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)

I did a gdb debug (all the binaries were stiped, so I only got where
httpd exit out):

# gdb /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd
<copyright blah blah...>
(gdb) run -X -f /opt/csw/apache2/etc/httpd.conf
Starting program: /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd -X -f
/opt/csw/apache2/etc/httpd.conf
(no debugging symbols found)...bla blah
<snip>
[New LWP 2]
[New LWP 3]
[New LWP 4]
[New LWP 5]
[New LWP 6]
[New LWP 7]
[New LWP 8]
[New LWP 9]
[New LWP 10]
[New LWP 11]
[New LWP 12]
[New LWP 13]
[New LWP 14]
[New LWP 15]
[New LWP 16]
[New LWP 17]
[New LWP 18]
[New LWP 19]
[New LWP 20]
[New LWP 21]
[New LWP 22]
[New LWP 23]
[New LWP 24]
[New LWP 25]
[New LWP 26]
[New LWP 27]
[New LWP 28]
[LWP 2 exited]
[New LWP 2]
[Thu Aug 12 09:39:01 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...
[Thu Aug 12 09:39:01 2004] [notice] Digest: done

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
[Switching to LWP 26]
0x0014fc28 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0 0x0014fc28 in ?? ()
#1 0xff331598 in apr_posix_perms2mode () from
/opt/csw/lib/sparcv8/libaprutil.so.0
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Looks like httpd failed on at apr_posix_perms2mode?
Any ideas where the problem is?

Version of the packages I am running:

# uname -a
SunOS svn_server 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

subversion 1.0.6,REV=2004.07.21
apache2 2.0.50,REV=2004.08.0
ap2_subversion 1.0.6,REV=2004.07.21 Version Control rethought
(Apache 2 Module)
berkeleydb4 4.1.25p1
apr 0.9.5,REV=2004.07.18
aprutil 0.9.5,REV=2004.07.31

svn related portion of httpd.conf"

# Subversion DAV module
LoadModule dav_svn_module libexec/mod_dav_svn.so
<IfModule mod_dav_svn.c>
        <Location /repository>
                Dav svn
                SVNPath /svn/repository

                AuthType basic
                AuthName "Subversion Repository test"
                AuthUserFile /svn/conf/svnpasswd
                AuthGroupFile /svn/conf/svngroup
                Require user rfang1
        </Location>
</IfModule>

Thanks,

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