Cory Wright wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed Subversion + Apache 2.0.52 on a Red Hat 7.3 box and I
> have run into a problem.
>
> Here's what is installed:
>
> Subversion 1.1.1
> BerkeleyDB 4.2.52
> Apache 2.0.52
> neon 0.24.7
>
> Subversion was configured with the following options:
>
> --enable-dso
> --with-apr=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apr-config
> --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apu-config
> --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
> --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2
> --with-editor=vi
> --with-zlib
> --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.3
> --with-ssl
>
> The problem is that when I try to access the repositories via Apache,
> I get an error:
>
> "Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"
>
> and the Apache error_log reports this:
>
> [Sat Dec 18 16:18:02 2004] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20014)Error string
> not
> specified yet: Unknown FS type 'bdb' [Sat Dec 18 16:18:02 2004] [error]
> [client x.x.x.x] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0] [Sat
> Dec
> 18 16:18:02 2004] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Could not open the requested
> SVN
> filesystem [500, #160033] [Sat Dec 18 16:18:02 2004] [error] [client
> x.x.x.x] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160033]
>
> The repositories have the correct filesystem permission, the directory
> and all files/subdirectories are owned by nobody:nobody (the uid that
> Apache runs as):
>
> # ls -la /var/svn/testing/ /var/svn/testing/db/
> /var/svn/testing/:
> total 36
> drwxrwsr-x 7 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:24 .
> drwxrwsr-x 3 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:04 ..
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:25 conf
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:04 dav
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:24 db
> -r--r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 2 Dec 17 17:04 format
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:04 hooks
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:04 locks
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 379 Dec 17 17:04 README.txt
>
> /var/svn/testing/db/:
> total 948
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:24 .
> drwxrwsr-x 7 nobody nobody 4096 Dec 17 17:24 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 changes
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 copies
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 17 17:04 __db.001
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 270336 Dec 17 17:04 __db.002
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 327680 Dec 17 17:04 __db.003
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 737280 Dec 17 17:04 __db.004
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 16384 Dec 17 17:04 __db.005
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 1738 Dec 17 17:04 DB_CONFIG
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 4 Dec 17 17:04 fs-type
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 127347 Dec 18 18:02 log.0000000001
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 nodes
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 representations
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 revisions
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 49152 Dec 18 18:02 strings
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 transactions
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nobody nobody 8192 Dec 18 18:02 uuids
>
> Through the shell and `svn` I am able to check out the repository
> without incident:
>
> # setuidgid nobody id
> uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)
> # setuidgid nobody svn co file:///var/svn/testing /tmp/testing
> A /tmp/testing/php.ini
> Checked out revision 1.
>
> The fs format is bdb (created using `svnadmin` defaults):
>
> # cat /var/svn/testing/db/fs-type
> bdb
>
> My suspicion is that somehow the Apache module isn't supporting the
> bdb fs backend for some reason, despite the following:
>
> # strings mod_dav_svn.so |grep db
> apr_dbm_open
> apr_dbm_exists
> apr_dbm_fetch
> apr_dbm_close
> apr_dbm_freedatum
> apr_dbm_delete
> apr_dbm_store
> dav_svn_hooks_propdb
> svn_stringbuf_appendbytes
> Can't open activity db
> could not open dbm files.
> Can't close activity db
> could not close dbm files.
>
> I've seem messages in the archives where other's have gotten the
> "Unknown FS type 'bdb'" error message when using the command line
> tools, but I have not found anything about this happening when using
> Apache to access the repository.
>
> I'm out of ideas on this, so if there are any suggestions I would love
> to hear them. Please let me know if there is any other information is
> needed.
It sounds like libsvn_fs is failing to load libsvn_fs_base.
Is /usr/local/BerkeleyDB4.2/lib in ld.so.conf?
Has ldconfig been run?
You might want to try without --enable-dso - it's a less used option, and
there's really not much benefit to it unless you are trying to make a
subversion package with the BDB dependency optional.
Max.
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Received on Sun Dec 19 14:40:37 2004