Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

[Wizumwalt]

I think I'm getting closer ... Where is the path of this SVNIndexXSLT line pointing to?
SVNIndexXSLT "/svnindex.sxl"

I'm hoping if I put this svnindex.xsl file in the right location, it will fix this next error ...

[Manuzhai]

That is not an error, just a notice that there is no XSLT.

Your real problem is with Subversion not being open to able the SVN filesystem. I'd say you probably got the permissions wrong (on what OS are you?).

[Wizumwalt]

Thnxs, I thought I had fixed the perms, but there were a few files still w/ wrong perms.

[symo]

Hi Guys,

I am new to support, fresh out of uni, and my first task is to set up subversion.

I am trying to get a subversion server up and running on Fedora Core 3.

I have installed apache2 (yum install httpd)
I have installed subversion (yum instal subversion)
I have installed mod_dav_svn (yum install mod_dav_svn)

I have added the lines to my httpd.conf file:
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so

and:
User svn
Group svn

and also:
<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNPath /home/svn/repos/
</Location>

I have set all the permissions on "/home/svn/repos" to svn.

I get the message:


This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

-
<D:error>
<C:error/>
<m:human-readable errcode="13">
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
</m:human-readable>
</D:error>


I have created the repository using:

svnadmin create /home/svn/repos

What am I doing wrong?

[szabgab]

Is the whole tree of /home/svn/repos writable for user svn, the one Apache is using in your case ? It should be.
_________________
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/subversion.html

[symo]

Thank you for you help, I made the whole tree recursively "svn" group and user, and I dont get the error:
<m:human-readable errcode="13">

But unfortunately I now get the error:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

-
<D:error>
<C:error/>
<m:human-readable errcode="160029">
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
</m:human-readable>
</D:error>


Do you have any clues on this one???? Could it have anything to do with chcon???

[szabgab]

[mike5]

What is in /home/svn/repos ?

Is it just one repository, or are there more repositories in it?

Cheers, Mike5
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Miha Vitorovic
Close the world, txEn eht nepO.

[symo]

Hi again,

/home/svn/repos is just one repository,
I creted it using the command:

svnadmin create /home/svn/repos

Is this the correct way to create a repository?
Have I addressed the repository correctly?


Side note:

chcon is a unix command for change the security context of each file to a different context of your choosing. find more info at:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/chcon1.html

[szabgab]

[wuz73]

I'm using centOS4 and I've tried all the suggestions people mentioned before (i.e. chmod 0777, chcon, ...) However, I still couldn't get svn to work with apache2 although I had no trouble at all with "svn list file:///".

I traced the problem to (/var/log/messages):

Jul 30 15:02:23 localhost kernel: audit(1122760943.520:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=3008 exe=/usr/sbin/httpd name=/ dev=hda3 ino=2 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t tclass=dir

So it's not that "format" file that apache failed to access. In fact, I got the same error in /var/log/messages even if I try to access a non-existing svn repository (and the apache error_log would still show ".../format: permission denied" instead of "file not found") It seems that apache is trying to access /, but why?

Can someone please help me? I've been stuck at this for several days.. really getting frustrated..

thanks,
-- John

[szabgab]

could you share the relevant part in httpd.conf with us and show how the relevant part of the filesystem looks like ?
_________________
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/subversion.html

[wuz73]

I have these lines in conf.d/subversion.conf:

<Location /svn>
DAV svn
SVNPath /u/svn/repos
</Location>

and this file is automatically included in httpd.conf. The repository was created using:

svnadmin create /u/svn/repos
chmod -R 0777 /u/svn/repos
chcon -R -h -u system_u -t httpd_sys_content_t /u/svn/repos

"svn list file:///u/svn/repos" can access the repository successfully, but "svn list http://localhost/svn" fails with:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn'
svn:
Could not open the requested SVN filesystem

and /var/log/httpd/error_log shows:

[Sat Jul 30 16:00:06 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20014)Error string not specified yet: Can't open file '/u/svn/repos/format': Permission denied
[Sat Jul 30 16:00:06 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0]
[Sat Jul 30 16:00:06 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]
[Sat Jul 30 16:00:06 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #13]

As I mentioned before, it has nothing to do with /u/svn/repos/format, because /var/log/messages shows:

Jul 30 16:00:06 localhost kernel: audit(1122764406.907:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=3157 exe=/usr/sbin/httpd name=/ dev=hda3 ino=2 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t tclass=dir

I tried to rename format to foo, but httpd/error_log still shows "/u/svn/repos/format: permission denied"

-- John

[szabgab]

I can only guess

1) /u is some network device or for some reason the user that runs apache cannot see
try to su to that user and see if you can run sc\vn co file:///... then ?

2) Uncomment the loading of conf.d/subversion.conf, restart apache and try the
svn co http:// operation again. Does it fail the same way ?
Then you know the loaded config file did not have a chance to do its work
_________________
Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/subversion.html

[wuz73]

No, /u is not a network device; it's just a partition. "svn update file:///u/svn/repos" works fine, but "svn update http://localhost/svn" failed. I tried to change httpd.conf to include those lines, but got exactly the same result.