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Re: Can't find a temporary directory error

From: Ashutosh Mohanty <ashutosh_at_syncad.com>
Date: 2007-03-13 12:10:53 CET

Hi,

What is the version of SVN client you are using? Is this compatible; I mean
to say ,same as your server? If not Please update!!

Regards,
Ashutosh

M Kili wrote:
> Hi,
>
> svn + apache setup suddenly stopped working. I checked in some files,
> then I wanted to check in some others, but that failed with message
> that one of the files was out of date. So I ran svn update, this
> failed with this message:
>
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/webapp/!svn/vcc/default'
> svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Error string not specified yet
>
> Since then, every svn command contacting the server fails with the
> above message. I'm still able to access the repositories using
> filesystem URL.
>
> Searching on the message gave me these possible solutions:
>
> 1. Check if there is enough space on /tmp partition
> - there is
> 2. Check if /tmp and /var/tmp are writable by apache process
> # ls -ld /tmp /var/tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt 20 root root 8192 Mar 13 11:15 /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 1024 Mar 13 04:03 /var/tmp/
> 3. Upgrade apr to at least 0.9.7-something
> # rpm -qa |grep apr
> libapr-util1-devel-1.2.8-3.1
> libapr0-2.0.49-27.24.3.swsoft
> libapr1-1.2.8-3.1
> libapr1-devel-1.2.8-3.1
> libapr-util1-1.2.8-3.1
>
> So this did not help.
>
> Server logs:
> [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] The state report gatherer could not be
> created. [500, #20014]
> [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] Can't find a temporary directory: Error
> string not specified yet [500, #20014]
>
> Increasing apache's LogLevel did not increase verbosity. Is there any
> svn specific setting? It would be really useful if svn was more
> verbose.
>
> Any suggestions on this matter?
>
> Thanks, Marek
>
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