Couldn't determine absolute path

From: David Land <davidl_at_eurekasoft.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:03 -0500

I have Subversion installed on Windows Server 2003 along with Apache
2.2. Most operations appear to work fine except the copy/move
operation. I get the following error from Subversion:

svn: Couldn't determine absolute path of
'\\network_files\dir\svn\repo'

There are similar errors in the Apache log file:

Couldn't determine absolute path of
'\\\\network_files\\dir\\svn\\repo' [500, #125001]

I have the repository databases stored on our network. My understanding
is that this is okay as long as you use fsfs, which I did. I got this
working on another Subversion installation a few months ago with a
different repository. In fact, when I point the older Subversion system
at the newer repository, the move command works fine. But when I try to
point the new Subversion box that older repository, I get the same
error. That being the case, I don't think it's a permission thing on
the file system, I think it's a Subversion or Apache configuration
issue, I just don't know what.

I saw similar posts here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=55398

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-10/0654.shtml

but no responses to them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. See
below for more information on the configuration I'm using.

Thanks,

Dave

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Configuration details:

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Windows: Server 2003 R2

Subversion: version 1.4.6 (r28521)

Apache: version 2.2.8 (Win32)