Apache + SVN + DAV on FreeBSD 8:txn-current-lock: Permission denied

[jetbird]

Hello!

I have installed Subversion to the virtual private server running under FreeBSD 8. I can access my repository using DAV svn. I've added 2 users into the svn.passwd file (but not with 'adduser command'! they actually not existing on the server) and they can update their working copies now. But when I try to commit I see the message:

svn: Can't open file '/home/svn/km-cargo/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

Apache config:

<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNParentPath /home/svn
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repository"
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/svn.passwd
    Require valid-user
</Location>

Modules loaded:

LoadModule dav_module         libexec/apache22/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module     libexec/apache22/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   libexec/apache22/mod_authz_svn.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module      libexec/apache22/mod_dav_fs.so

Well, one thing I want to notice is that all of this worked well until I had logged in to the server and created there a few working copies of repository.

P.S.

trans-mark# ll /home/svn/km-cargo/db/
total 138
-rw-r--r--  1 root  www       3 Nov  4 12:44 current
-r--r--r--  1 www   www      22 Nov  4 11:17 format
-rw-r--r--  1 www   www       5 Nov  4 11:17 fs-type
-rw-r--r--  1 www   www    1959 Nov  4 11:17 fsfs.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 www   www       2 Nov  4 11:17 min-unpacked-rev
-rw-r--r--  1 root  www  118784 Nov  4 12:44 rep-cache.db
drwxr-xr-x  3 www   www     512 Nov  4 11:17 revprops
drwxr-xr-x  3 www   www     512 Nov  4 11:17 revs
drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www     512 Nov  4 12:44 transactions
-rw-r--r--  1 root  www       2 Nov  4 12:44 txn-current
-rw-r--r--  1 www   www       0 Nov  4 11:17 txn-current-lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www     512 Nov  4 12:44 txn-protorevs
-rw-r--r--  1 root  www      37 Nov  4 12:44 uuid
-rw-r--r--  1 www   www       0 Nov  4 11:17 write-lock

Apache is www:www.

[philip]

That's a OS permissions problem. In your case some parts of db/ are only writeable by root. When user www tries to write to them the write fails.

[jetbird]

Well, I tried this:

# find /home/svn/km-cargo/db/ -type f -exec chmod g+w {} \;
# ll /home/svn/km-cargo/db/
total 138
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  www       3 Nov  4 12:44 current
-r--rw-r--  1 www   www      22 Nov  4 11:17 format
-rw-rw-r--  1 www   www       5 Nov  4 11:17 fs-type
-rw-rw-r--  1 www   www    1959 Nov  4 11:17 fsfs.conf
-rw-rw-r--  1 www   www       2 Nov  4 11:17 min-unpacked-rev
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  www  118784 Nov  4 12:44 rep-cache.db
drwxr-xr-x  3 www   www     512 Nov  4 11:17 revprops
drwxr-xr-x  3 www   www     512 Nov  4 11:17 revs
drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www     512 Nov  4 12:44 transactions
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  www       2 Nov  4 12:44 txn-current
-rw-rw-r--  1 www   www       0 Nov  4 11:17 txn-current-lock
drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www     512 Nov  4 12:44 txn-protorevs
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  www      37 Nov  4 12:44 uuid
-rw-rw-r--  1 www   www       0 Nov  4 11:17 write-lock

And permission still denied

[jetbird]

# chmod 777 /home/svn/km-cargo/db/txn-current-lock

now new error:

svn: Can't create temporary file from template '/home/svn/km-cargo/db/svn-XXXXXX': Permission denied

[philip]

You still have files owned by root. The usual way to set things up is:
chown -R www:www /home/svn/km-cargo
Any reason you are doing things differently?

[jetbird]

Philip, thank you for your answers, I have solved the problem : that was an issue specific to VDS provider. Owner should not be www:www but user:user registered in ISPManager panel. They told me that this happens in case of apache mpm-itk installed.