On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 05:41:13PM -0800, Alexey Neyman wrote: > Hi all, > > I am encountering some weird behavior after upgrading my workstation to > Ubuntu 18.10 - which also upgraded the SVN to version 1.10.0 (r1827917). > > An attempt to query anything from the server using the `--non-interactive` > flag fails, unless there has been a recent "interactive session" with this > server. > > aneyman@yehat:~/work/lsk-ranges$ svn --non-interactive pl ^/ > svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL > 'svn://svn.lynx.com/lynxsecure' > svn: E170001: Can't get username or password > aneyman@yehat:~/work/lsk-ranges$ svn pl ^/ > Properties on 'svn://svn.lynx.com/lynxsecure': > reviewboard:url > aneyman@yehat:~/work/lsk-ranges$ svn --non-interactive pl ^/ > Properties on 'svn://svn.lynx.com/lynxsecure': > reviewboard:url > > This happens during various actions by `rbt` (RBTools) which runs svn with > --non-interactive flag. > > Note that the "interactive" run of svn does not even query the password - it > happily uses the stored password and proceeds. Why isn't the non-interactive > invocation doing the same? > > I also tried the development version of Subversion a couple of weeks ago; it > has the same behavior. > > Regards, > Alexey.
I agree this looks like a bug. To find the bug we'll likely need to know which password store is actually being used by your installation of Subversion. plaintext? gpg-agent? gnome-keyring? kwallet?