Following up… I tried changed the permissions on the repository to be more permissive, and changing the user/group of the Apache server: no help.
I also tried recompiling from source, but that did not help either. To recap, I am getting this warning after every commit since we upgraded the SVN server to 1.7.1: Warning: post commit FS processing had error: Couldn't open rep-cache database On 2011-11-14, at 21:35 , Aleksandr Sidorenko wrote: >>> Since posting the question, I tried using "svnserve" instead of >>> Apache (the mod_dav_svn module), and the error does NOT occur in >>> this case (we would still prefer to stick with mod_dav_svn). >> >> How did you manage permissions using svnserver? You mentioned a group >> which you gave read/write access for the file. Did you made >> svnserve-deamon member of thet group or did something else? I thought >> of lock files rep-cache.db which may be not created during >> insufficient permissions on the parent directory. But I don't know if >> SQLite works this way. > > I ran the svnserver test as root, without any restrictions. > > But I don't think it's a permission issue on the rep-cache.db file since I > even tried giving it unrestricted read/write access to be sure that wasn't > the case. Could other files be involved?