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Konstantin Kolinko commented on BUILDS-9: ----------------------------------------- log4j2 project configures "SVN" step as addStep(SVN(repourl=...)) without any values for mode or method. It means that those have default values mode="incremental", method=None. \[1] In this configuration Buildbot does the following (in methods incremental(), _sourcedirIsUpdatable() in \[2] ): 1. Checks that ".svn" directory is present 2. Calls "svn info --xml" and parses its stdout as XML. 3. Verifies that repository URL returned by Step 2 is as expected. 4. If repository URL is OK then it performs "svn update". In this case the step 2 fails. My guess is that svn working copy is in an older format and needs an "svn upgrade" call on it. \[1] http://docs.buildbot.net/current/manual/cfg-buildsteps.html#step-SVN \[2] https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/blob/master/master/buildbot/steps/source/svn.py#L258 > Some Buildbot Builds failing due to corupted xml in svn step > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: BUILDS-9 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDS-9 > Project: Infra Build Platform > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Buildbot > Environment: Currently only seems to happen on lares_ubuntu which as > svn 1.8.8 > Reporter: Gavin > Assignee: Gavin > > most builds fail during the svn checkout|update step with the error message > 'Corrupted xml, aborting step' -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)