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?

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