Re: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error

Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists_at_gmail.com> writes:

>> svn ci -m "some comment"
> svn: E175002: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response:
> XML parse error at line 3: not well-formed (invalid token)
> (/suite/!svn/me)

One thing that can cause this error is when the OS permissions prevent
Apache writing to the repository.

The underlying error on the server is:

 "Can't open file '.../db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied"

but it looks like we have a problem with the error reporting. I don't
see anything logged in the apache log, and wireshark shows the response

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:22:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8o DAV/2 SVN/1.8.0-dev
Content-Length: 207
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns">
<D:(null)/>
<m:human-readable errcode="13">
could not begin a transaction
</m:human-readable>
</D:error>

That "D:(null)" is suspicious.

-- 
Philip