E120105 (or not): The server sent an improper HTTP response

Hi, folks,

     I'm one of our two subversion administrators and I've got a problem
that puzzles all of us. Most of our users are reporting an issue doing
checkins, being able to commit one file at a time, then getting the message
"Error running context: The server sent an improper HTTP response",
sometimes prepended with the code E120105. This is happening using:

     Windows, both via the client and the command line: TortoiseSVN 1.8.6,
Build 25419 - 64 Bit , 2014/04/12 11:40:48
     Mac OS X on the command line: svn, version 1.8.8 (r1568071) compiled
Apr 22 2014, 22:31:17 on x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0

but not:

     Linux using svn, version 1.6.11 (r934486) compiled Apr 3 2013,
04:40:28

     The server is running subversion 1.8.0 and Apache/2.2.15.

     I've read about the neon/serf libraries and figure the neon libraries
on our Linux server are old enough not to have the issue and our serf
libraries aren't new enough to have it fixed, but I'm just guessing. My
plan, unless you have a better one, is to upgrade as soon as possibe to
1.8.8 or 1.8.9. Can you help?

Thanks,

     John A
Received on 2014-06-06 20:15:51 CEST