hi there, unfortunately moving to the newer version did not solve my problem. since my last description of the problem i have upgraded to 2 new snapshots. any try resulted in the 'generic failure' message.
i have built a maintainer mode version. $ svn --version svn, version 1.7.1 (r1186859) compiled Nov 8 2011, 10:32:23 Copyright (C) 2011 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - with Cyrus SASL authentication - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme $ svn up Updating '.': subversion/svn/update-cmd.c:163: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/update.c:610: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/update.c:551: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/update.c:336: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/ra.c:335: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c:496: (apr_err=170001) svn: E170001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://our.private.repo' subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:739: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:643: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/cyrus_auth.c:829: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/cyrus_auth.c:351: (apr_err=170001) svn: E170001: generic failure or somenewdir$ svn co svn://our.private.repo subversion/svn/checkout-cmd.c:168: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/checkout.c:137: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/ra.c:475: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_client/ra.c:335: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c:496: (apr_err=170001) svn: E170001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://our.private.repo' subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:739: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:643: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/cyrus_auth.c:829: (apr_err=170001) subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/cyrus_auth.c:351: (apr_err=170001) svn: E170001: generic failure i have also tried copying .subversion from a functioning 1.6.12 version to $HOME, resulting in the same traces. i have tried checking out some anonymous repositories, no problems. -f -- you don't have to be a cannibal to get fed up with people.
