Re: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:43, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 16:56:05 +0100: May I ask for any hints of what could go wrong and how I could debug the problem? I have seen various threads after searching with google, but none of those that I checked provided any useful insight. (I work with SVN a lot, but have never experienced a problem like this one.) The use of POST request is new in 1.7 (client+server must be 1.7 for this). They are. Can you capture the XML response on the wire and share it here? (with wireshark, or neon-debug-mask) If it contains sensitive stuff feel free to share it by private mail. Maybe Philip Martin's mail already answers this question. I first need to figure out how to use wireshark. Is there any chapter in SVN documentation explaining how to troubleshoot problems with subversion on a network level? And if not - would it be feasible to prepare one? Mojca
Re: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:34, Philip Martin wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: svn ci -m some comment svn: E175002: Commit failed (details follow): svn: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 3: not well-formed (invalid token) (/suite/!svn/me) One thing that can cause this error is when the OS permissions prevent Apache writing to the repository. Thank you very much for the hint. This is a quite likely cause. I don't have the computer at hand, but I indeed created the repository with sudo svncreate and if apache needs to write to it, I can easily believe that the rights are not sufficient to do so. Still, it would help a lot if the error message was more descriptive than it was (I would then figure out what to do myself). The underlying error on the server is: Can't open file '.../db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied but it looks like we have a problem with the error reporting. I don't see anything logged in the apache log, and wireshark shows the response HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:22:45 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8o DAV/2 SVN/1.8.0-dev Content-Length: 207 Connection: close Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? D:error xmlns:D=DAV: xmlns:m=http://apache.org/dav/xmlns; D:(null)/ m:human-readable errcode=13 could not begin a transaction /m:human-readable /D:error That D:(null) is suspicious. Thank you for the precise analysis. Mojca
Re: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: I first need to figure out how to use wireshark. Is there any chapter in SVN documentation explaining how to troubleshoot problems with subversion on a network level? And if not - would it be feasible to prepare one? http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/debugging.html#net-trace -- Philip
Re: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error
Mojca Miklavec wrote on Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 16:56:05 +0100: Hello, I create a new repository on server with svncreate /path/to/repos/suite and added the rights (everyone is allowed to read, I'm also allowed to edit). Server reports: svn --version svn, version 1.7.2 (r1207936) compiled Dec 5 2011, 22:26:40 I checked out an empty version 0 successfully (through apache) with svn co http://svn.myserver.com/suite and client version reporting: svn --version svn, version 1.7.2 (r1207936) compiled Dec 9 2011, 21:54:16 I then added a new directory with a bunch of files and wanted to commit, but it complained with: svn ci -m some comment svn: E175002: Commit failed (details follow): svn: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 3: not well-formed (invalid token) (/suite/!svn/me) May I ask for any hints of what could go wrong and how I could debug the problem? I have seen various threads after searching with google, but none of those that I checked provided any useful insight. (I work with SVN a lot, but have never experienced a problem like this one.) The use of POST request is new in 1.7 (client+server must be 1.7 for this). Can you capture the XML response on the wire and share it here? (with wireshark, or neon-debug-mask) If it contains sensitive stuff feel free to share it by private mail. Thank you very much, Mojca
