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Re: Problems using subversion on Fedora

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2005-03-18 22:08:16 CET

Jason Taylor wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed SVN with Apache2 on Fedora Core 3 and just can't get
>> it to work correctly.
>>
>> The log show the following messages:
>>
>> [Thu Mar 17 19:44:41 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.41] (20014)Error
>> string not specified yet: Berkeley DB error while opening environment
>> for filesystem /usr/local/svnrepos/azaimage/db:\nPermission denied
>> [Thu Mar 17 19:44:41 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.41] Could not
>> fetch resource information. [500, #0]
>> [Thu Mar 17 19:44:41 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.41] Could not
>> open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160029]
>> [Thu Mar 17 19:44:41 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.41] Could not
>> open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160029]
>>
>> I already revised permissions to be set to the user Apache is running
>> under.
>> I also tried setting the whole repository to CHMOD 777 and same error .-(
>>
>> Does anyone know what else could be the problem?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Miguel
>>
>
> This looks suspiciously like the same problem I'm having, though I'm
> using an fsfs backend. Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to fix it
> yet either.

Take a look at the FAQ, especially if you have SELinux enabled:
  http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms

-John

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