HALP!!!!

[notdefined]

I've been trying to download the LJ tree from the subversion repository and it keeps aborting. This is the scenario

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[andy]

The only thing from your log that caught my attention is !svn (shouldn't it be .svn?). So the question is -- which operating system/SVN version are you using?

[notdefined]

That was a reply from the sixapart server. The only thing I sent was the svn co line. I've tried this on OSX Leopard and Linux with the same result.

A livejournal/htdocs/doc/server/ljp.dbschema.usertrans_churn.html
A livejournal/htdocs/doc/server/ljp.csp.flat.getchallenge.html
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/livejournal/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: The REPORT request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 36288: no element found (/svn/livejournal/!svn/vcc/default)

[andy]

I'm sorry, but I'm not reproducing this. I just used the very same command you've provided and checked it out successfully.

Though quick google turns out that this can be triggered by non-ASCII commit messages. I'm using Unicode (UTF-8) at my Gentoo box, so maybe changing the encoding at your own Linux system can help. *shrug*

[notdefined]

Interesting. Let me see what I can find out.

[soph]

Actually, you're not the only one who's having this problem - see http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/771938.html too.

I found the problem!!!

[notdefined]

I've been using the instructions in the documentation section 7.2 titled Installing the Files. This is the example of the SVN Install:
# mkdir /home/lj
# chown lj:lj /home/lj
$ cd $LJHOME
$ mkdir cvs
$ cd cvs
$ svn co http://code.sixapart.com/svn/vcv/trunk vcv
$ svn co http://code.sixapart.com/svn/livejournal/trunk livejournal
$ cd $LJHOME
$ cvs/vcv/bin/vcv --conf=cvs/livejournal/cvs/multicvs.conf --checkout -s

These instructions fail as I indicated before. If i issue the svn commands via sudo like this:

sudo svn co http://code.sixapart.com/svn/livejournal/trunk livejournal

everything works just fine.

Thanks for all of your help.

Tom

Re: I found the problem!!!

[raccaldin36]

http://xkcd.com/149/

[whitaker]

If the checkout fails halfway through, then you can just issue an "svn up" to update the half-checked out tree to current. I've gotten this error a few times myself and just issue subsequent "svn up"s to bring my tree to a consistent state.