At this point I'm feeling pretty foolish. I've tracked down the problem to
a simple permissions issue. I had set the right permissions on the repo
itself, but not on the containing directory. Of course I'm thickheaded
enough to test apr_file_open by itself before I checked the permissions
again.
Sorry for bothering everyone for no reason.
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Webber <andy_at_aligature.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem bringing up a subversion server on a new machine.
> Here's a quick summary of what I'm using.
>
> - PowerMac quad-core Xeon
> - Mac OS 10.5.2
> - Apache 2.2.6 (64-bit)
> - Subversion 1.4.6 built my me with CFLAGS=-m64
> - FSFS repository
> - Mode 777 recursively set on the repository
> - The repository is on a ZFS filesystem
>
> When I attempt to access the repository I get the following error in my
> apache logs:
>
> [Sun Mar 02 11:56:57 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6
> OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] (20014)Internal
> error: Can't open file '/docs/code/svn/format': Permission denied
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
> [Sun Mar 02 11:57:03 2008] [error] [client 68.162.106.61] Could not open
> the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
>
> If I move the repository to an HFS+ filesystem, I can access it through
> apache. Also, I can access the repository on ZFS normally using the
> file:/// protocol. Therefore, the problem seems to stem from using apache
> with ZFS. I know that ZFS on mac is a little new at this point, but I was
> surprised that it didn't "just work".
>
> Does the subversion code specially look for resource files when running on
> a mac?
> I don't think that ZFS uses resource files. Could that be confusing
> subversion somehow?
> Are other people able to serve subversion on ZFS on Solaris 10?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
Received on 2008-06-04 06:05:20 CEST