RE: Re: UI / permissions anomally in Tortoise 1.7 Repo Browser

Hi, I have experienced the same issue and haven't found any other posts on this subject, so thought I would try to add some of our findings in case it helps:

1) We have (without problem) used tortoise svn (up to 1.6.16) for several years, so we're pretty sure this problem only started with 1.7.1
2) We checked this by upgrading a previously working machine and then re-installing the older 1.6 sw and the problem came and went as expected
3) Our server is running svnserve in inetd mode - inetd.conf contains:
svn stream tcp nowait subversion /usr/local/bin/svnserver svnserve -i -r /var/subversion

svnserv.conf has:
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = Tebira
4) Server is a little old, aptitude reports the following upgrade path:
libsvn0 [1.3.1-3ubuntu1 -> 1.3.1-3ubuntu1.2]
subversion [1.3.1-3ubuntu1 -> 1.3.1-3ubuntu1.2]
5) With tortoise 1.7.1 installed the problem manifests itself as the server refusing to respond to the client. We have seen this occur as a direct denial or access (the server actively refused ocnnection) and some stranger behviour along the lines of server reports use doesn't have permissions to access /var/subversion/conf/passwd even thought the inetd process should run svn as user 'subversion' and the user is the owner of the file in question
6) As this looked like an inetd issue, we tried 'sudo /etc/init.d/inetd restart' and this does clear the error for one access, i.e. the next operation after executing this on the server succeeds, and then all subsequent requests fail the same way as before

So basically, it looks like an authentication / connection issue, however I'm not sure whether the fact the restarting inetd solves the issue once indicates the problem is with inetd itself, svnserve or tortoise - obviously there is some non-compatibility somewhere...

Sorry I don't understand Linux better to draw more conclusions from our observations, if you need anymore infomation on reproducing this error, I may be able to help,

Regards

Jonathan

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Received on 2011-11-28 16:04:58 CET