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Re: https: access gives: Can't set position pointer in file

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-04-21 22:59:07 CEST

On 4/20/06, Rafael Caceres <rcaceres@aasa.com.pe> wrote:
> I have setup subversion and Apache2 per the documentation. My setup is
> Suse SLES9 with db4 from RPM, and subversion and Apache2 from tarballs.
> The repository files are owned by the apache user and group, and the
> <Location /svn> directives have been set per the docs.
>
> I can access the repository through file:// but any attempt to access it
> through http:// gives the following error:
>
> [Fri Apr 21 02:42:48 2006] [error] [client 172.16.1.92] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Fri Apr 21 02:42:48 2006] [error] [client 172.16.1.92] Could not open
> the root of the repository [500, #22]
> [Fri Apr 21 02:42:48 2006] [error] [client 172.16.1.92] Can't set
> position pointer in file '/usr/local/svn/repo1/db/revs/0': Invalid
> argument [500, #22]

That sort of error tends to result from having two different versions
of APR (one from the 0.9.x series and one from the 1.x series) linked
into mod_dav_svn and httpd. You need to make sure Subversion and
Apache are both using the same one.

-garrett

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