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Re: svnsync 1.8.0 fails if htdigest authentication is used

From: Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 21:50:00 +0200

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Vadym Chepkov <vchepkov_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Bert,
>
> Master had KeepAlive on, replica - KeepAlive Off
>

as Bert said, Digest authentication to servers configured with
KeepAlive Off is currently broken in serf 1.2.1, the version used in
svn 1.8.0.
I have a patch that fixes this, as soon as I finish the unit test I'll
commit to serf trunk and make sure it gets included in serf 1.3.0.

Now, I can only advise you to always use KeepAlive On for the server
hosting your Subversion repositories. Svn will make many (small)
requests to the server, and in your configuration a new TCP connection
is opened for every request. I've noticed svnsync performing much
slower with KeepAlive Off.

Lieven

>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vadym,
>>
>>
>>
>> We found a related issue while testing the serf http code, which might be
>> related to your issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you somehow check if your repository has the ‘KeepAlive’ option
>> configured to off? In this case the digest code in serf performs every
>> request without authentication, because it would only try to use
>> authentication on later requests on the same connection
>>
>>
>>
>> If that is the case, it looks like this issue will be resolved with the
>> next serf release. (Which should happen with or before Subversion 1.8.1).
>>
>>
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
>>
>> [Added CC to one of the serf developers, who isn’t subscribed to this
>> list]
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Vadym Chepkov [mailto:vchepkov_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: maandag 1 juli 2013 18:32
>> To: Bert Huijben
>> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org; Ryan Schmidt
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: svnsync 1.8.0 fails if htdigest authentication is used
>>
>>
>>
>> Bert,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be happy to provide debugging information, but as I said, I had to
>> rollback to 1.7.10.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I ran it interactively, authentication just didn't go through, so it
>> looked like the username or password is incorrect.
>>
>> After I reverted back to 1.7.10 everything works as expected.
>>
>>
>>
>> svnsync is called from a hook on the master server :
>>
>>
>>
>> #!/bin/ksh
>>
>> REPOS=`basename $1`
>>
>> TMPFILE=/var/tmp/svnsync.$$
>>
>> /usr/bin/svnsync sync --non-interactive --quiet \
>>
>> --sync-username svnsync http://example.com/reposync/${REPOS} > $TMPFILE
>> 2>&1
>>
>> if [[ $? -ne 0 && -s $TMPFILE ]] ; then
>>
>> mail -s "svnsync failed" root < $TMPFILE
>>
>> fi
>>
>> rm -f $TMPFILE
>>
>> exit 0
>>
>>
>>
>> Slave server is properly initialized:
>>
>>
>>
>> sudo -u apache svn pg svn:sync-from-url --revprop -r 0 --username
>> svnsync http://example.com/reposync/repo1
>>
>>
>>
>> http://example.com/svn/repo1
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I was receiving errors like this in e-mail:
>>
>>
>>
>> svnsync: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL
>> 'http://example.com/reposync/repo1'
>> svnsync: E175002: OPTIONS of 'http://example.com/reposync/repo1': could
>> not connect to server (http://example.com)
>>
>>
>>
>> or this
>>
>>
>>
>> svnsync: E175002: PROPFIND of '/reposync/repo2/!svn/rev/0': could not
>> connect to server (http://example.com)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Vadym
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Vadym Chepkov [mailto:vchepkov_at_gmail.com]
>> > Sent: zondag 30 juni 2013 22:58
>> > To: Ryan Schmidt
>> > Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
>> > Subject: Re: svnsync 1.8.0 fails if htdigest authentication is used
>> >
>> >
>> > On Jun 30, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > On Jun 30, 2013, at 07:06, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> After I upgraded to 1.8.0, svnsync process started to fail. I am
>> > >> using
>> > apache 2.2.3. I suspect it's really serf's problem (1.2.1), but
>> nevertheless I had
>> > to revert back to 1.7.10. Is this a known limitation?
>> > >
>> > > You said you upgraded to 1.8.0. Was that the computer running svnsync,
>> or
>> > the server serving the original repository, or both?
>> > >
>> > > What error message did you get?
>> >
>> >
>> > Both source and destination run under Linux. Authentication fails, I see
>> 401 in
>> > the apache's access log.
>> >
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I expected a problem related to some recent fixes in serf that should be
>> available in the next release, but one of the serf developers ensured me
>> that it was not this problem.
>>
>> <@lgo> Bert: serf 1.2.1 fixed an issue with htdigest, no server
>> authentication issues are known.
>> <@lgo> I have no problem syncing a repository on a server using digest
>> either
>> <@lgo> that is, from a repository over ra_serf with digest authn to
>> ra_local.
>> <@lgo> The thread on users doesn't contain a lot of info, and I'm not
>> subscribed to users. So if you can get some more info about his setup,
>> exact
>> error message, whether that's directly or after a while ... I will look
>> into
>> it further.
>>
>> So I would repeat Ryan's request. Can you show us what goes wrong (with
>> what
>> error) and how we can reproduce this problem?
>>
>> It is quite interesting to know if this happens directly at the start or
>> after a huge chunk of work was completed.
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
>
>
Received on 2013-07-02 21:50:53 CEST

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