Re: Update fails but fresh checkout works

On 1 February 2010 14:38, Patter01 <patter001_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Many of my SVN users are having an issue where a SVN update is failing with
> permission denied, but if they do a fresh checkout there is no permissions
> issue. I "think" this is due to a permissions change occurring occasionally
> in the authz file, but I'm not sure.

Is that permission denied in the local file system, or a permission
denied response from the SVN server?

Why would the the authz file change occasionally? Someone must be
changing it. What changes do they make?

> I've seen at least one case where two users where updating one machine and
> had similar access except one had RO access and one had RW. They could each
> do a checkout (on top of the existing directory), but they both got
> permission denied when doing the update. Neither of them were doing commits,
> just update & checkout. This example may be a different issue than the one
> if the first paragraph, but it is my only hint as to why I'm seeing this
> scenario (update fails, checkout works) with a so many users.
>
> Any ideas on what the update would fail? Is there something within the SVN
> directories that I could do to fix it such that the update would work?

Don't touch the content of the .svn directories. That is a subversion
working area.

You obviously need full permissions in your local working copy, i.e.
read, write, create, delete, eat, sleep ...

Is the working copy on a network share or a local drive?

What repository access method do you use? http:// svn:// file://

Simon

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