Spurious "PROPFIND request failed - could not connect to server "

Hi,

I am running a copy of the vss2svn script against Subversion 1.2.3 (and associated 1.2.3 Perl SWIG bindings). This works just nicely most of the time, but every single time I start a "huge" conversion job, I get the odd, spurious error message:

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RA layer request failed:
  PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/test_repo/vssimport':

  PROPFIND of '/svn/test_repo/vssimport': could not connect to server (http://localhost:8080)

at C:\vss2svn.pl line 1509
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This just happend again after about 1300 successful commits on this very repository.

This error message is not tied to a specific file or directory that is being worked on - it happens, and I can vss2svn.pl --restart the whole process just without having to do anything else.

This worries me - any thoughts? Is there any way to retry the operation

        $SVNClient->revprop_set('svn:date', $encDate, $gCfg{svnrepo}, $propRev, 0);

for a (configurable) number of times, so that this does not fail?

Some insights into my setup:

* Subversion 1.2.3 via Apache 2.0.54 on Windows XP SP2; Apache tuning is out of the box
* McAfee on-demand file access virus scanning active (my hands are tied)
* Slowish laptop harddisk, plenty of disk space left, 768 MB of system memory
* vss2svn.pl script on ActivePerl 5.8, using Subversion 1.2.3 SWIG bindings
* VSS repository on local disk, Apache running either as a console application or a Windows service on localhost:8080
* Apache authenticating access to Subversion repository via mod_auth_sspi 1.0.3 against Microsoft Active Directory

I don't get any entries in the Apache error log or the Apache access log indicating any failures or issues or whatever.

Thanks very much for any insights or suggestions in advance
Stefan

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Received on Wed Oct 5 13:55:17 2005