[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Apache diff error: invalid xml

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-09-22 16:01:20 CEST

On 9/21/06, Daniel <daniel123+svn@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've come across a strange problem that is only an issue on my Apache hosted
> repository.
>
> Using a file:// url this is not an issue.
>
> Using Tortoise, when I try to do a unified diff I get this error:
> Error: REPORT request failed on '/svn/logistics/!svn/vcc/default'
> Error: The REPORT request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error
> at line 9: not well-formed (invalid token) (/svn/logistics/!svn/vcc/default)
>
>
> Doing a diff or unified diff has the same result.
> This has been especially troublesome in trying to do a merge.
> When doing a merge aforementioned functions don't work and dry run and merge
> don't work either (they get the same error).
>
> When I do the exact same procedure with a file:// I don't get any error at all.
>
> Finally, what makes this even more odd is that if I select a single *file* for a
> merge it works a little better.
> If I set the "From Revision" to the revision *after* the initial add of the
> branch file, then:
> Diff seems to work on the merge screen in this case.
> Dry run seems to work
> Merge seems to work
> However, unified diff doesn't work (same XML error described above)
>
> If I set the "From Revision" to the revision *of* the inital add of the branch
> file, then:
> Diff still works
> Dry run still works
> Merge still works
> Unified diff has a new error message:
> 'https://example.com/TestBranchDirectoryURL/test.txt' was not found in the
> repository at revision 522
>
> And unified diff still doesn't work.
>
> I'm not sure what the cause of this is.
> I we were running server version 1.3.2 and we just upgraded to 1.4 to see if
> that would fix the problem (it didn't).
>
> I'm not to knowledgable about the command line interface (so I haven't tried
> merging there). However, the diffs I tried on the command line:
> svn diff -r 230 createtabs.sql
> done from the within working copy as the current working directory.
> had the exact same XML error (actually line number error changes).

Do you happen to be running some sort of personal firewall on your
windows machine? In the past we've seen some of those corrupt the xml
we send back and forth over http, causing simliar problems. You might
want to search the mailng list archives for details, maybe that's the
problem you're having.

-garrett

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Fri Sep 22 16:02:16 2006

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.