On 28 Mar, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:53:00 +0100 > Nicolai Beuermann <nicolai.beuerm...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Polipo is running but there's nothing changing when it's stopped. >> I'm on a NATted LAN behind a router without any firewall running on this >> host. > > So far (in this thread) I've seen svn fail when it's started by layman, > prehaps you should try starting it directly, like this: > > cd /tmp && \ > svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk vmware_overlay > > If it fails as well (I guess it should) and wget of the same http > address works, it certainly must be a bug in svn. > > 'strace -f svn co ...' might help to see which particular operation > fails - might be it's not http access, but something totally unrelated, > like forking a child 'getter' process due to some limit. > > You might also consider simply downgrading / updating svn, since no > matter what kind of bug there is, it might not manifest itself in other > versions.
Hi, I've just discovered that reemerging dev-util/subversion (1.6.0) with different use flags gives a working svn USE='-webdav-neon webdav-serf' emerge -1 dev-util/subversion So, I suspect net-misc/neon (0.28.4) or the interplay of subversion with neon is broken. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany