Re: Internal Error: Failed to Load Module for FS type

From: Martin J. Stumpf <mjs_at_jhu.edu>
Date: 2006-02-16 15:36:49 CET

C. Michael Pilato wrote:

[Taking a deep breath...]

Mark, sorry your experience with Subversion has been ...
less-than-pleasant.  Unfortunately, you've mailed the Subversion source
code commits list.  Your mail is better aimed at
users@subversion.tigris.org (which I'm Cc:ing in this response).

That said, some inline responses follow.

Mark Galbreath wrote:
  

'bdb''
or
'fsfs'
Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0]
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160033] 
 
Yes, I've read every friggin post in the mail archive, everything on the
svn website, and even RTFM (book).
 
That being said, I am using Apache 2.2.0 with svn 1.3.0.  All the
DAV/SVN/AUTHZ modules are loaded, and my httpd.conf entry looks like this:
 
<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /opt/svn  # one repos under parent right now called
'newwww'
    # plus all the usual security crap that is commented out right now
</Location>
 
Yes, the owner/group of the repos is identical to Apache httpd.
 
So wtf is this fail-to-load error (which screws everything) showing up
in the apache error_log every time I try to use the svn client or a web
browser to connect to the repos?  I've been trying to solve this for 2
days!!!
    

I presume you are trying to access the repository using the URL
"http[s]://SERVER/svn/newwww/", yes?  Are you able to, as the user that
Apache runs as, access the repository via "file:///opt/svn/newwww/" ?
Does 'svnlook youngest /opt/svn/newwww' yield anything interesting?

  

And for that matter, wtf am I reading documentation that still refers to
1.1 and 1.2???  If you committers are going to release the software,
don't you think updating the DOCUMENTATION would be a Good Thing, too?
    

Are there particular aspects of your problems with Subversion that you
feel are specific to versions of Subversion newer than 1.2?  Obviously,
keeping the documentation up-to-date is desirable, but as with the code,
is mostly a volunteer effort.  If you have patches which will improve
the coverage or quality of that documentation, please submit them (to
svnbook-dev@red-bean.com).  Thanks.

  

I really appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into subversion. The book is excellent and I have learned so much over the years just from this list. Not only how-to, but best practice as well. Occasionally someone has enthusiastically thanked the authors, and after reading this volatile post I felt another hearty round of thanks was in order. You have set a wonderful example of how to diffuse a thorny post. I consider it a great privilege  to  read the responses of  the developers and authors. You know who you are!

 Thank you very much,

-Martin

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