Here is a backtrace. It sheds rather more light on the problem. apr_thread_mutex_create dies with error 70023, APR_ENOTIMPL.
Then, whilst attempting to handle the error, libsvnjavahl segfaults - presumably because the error occurred too early in initialization for the error handling code itself to have been initialized. Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1209973072 (LWP 10067)] 0xae61264b in JNIUtil::setExceptionThrown () at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIUtil.cpp:538 538 data->m_exceptionThrown = true; Current language: auto; currently c++ (gdb) bt #0 0xae61264b in JNIUtil::setExceptionThrown () at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIUtil.cpp:538 #1 0xae612ae0 in JNIUtil::throwError ( message=0xae63c300 "an error occurred in function apr_thread_mutex_create with return value 70023") at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIUtil.cpp:324 #2 0xae612f54 in JNIUtil::handleAPRError (error=70023, op=0xae6334b4 "apr_thread_mutex_create") at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIUtil.cpp:446 #3 0xae6113b2 in JNIMutex (this=0x8301de0, pool=0x8353d88) at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIMutex.cpp:38 #4 0xae6136b1 in JNIUtil::JNIGlobalInit (env=0x805cf38) at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/JNIUtil.cpp:256 #5 0xae62a13f in Java_org_tigris_subversion_javahl_SVNClient_initNative ( env=0x805cf38, jclazz=0xbffa0980) at subversion-1.3.2/subversion/bindings/java/javahl/native/org_tigris_subversion_javahl_SVNClient.cpp:1839 #6 0xb264a4db in ?? () #7 0x0805cf38 in ?? () ** Also affects: apache2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- 2.0.55-4ubuntu4 update causes svn failure https://launchpad.net/bugs/62748 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs