[SVN-3273] error when performing commit - Invalid UTF-8 sequence

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.x
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: mod_dav_svn

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 28/Aug/08 20:39
• Updated: 15/Mar/13 21:45

Description

See the following user list threads for details:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=81436
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=81302
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=81369
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=81068


Borrowed transcript example from user list message 81436:
[root@cutlass v1.5]$ svnadmin create sandbox
[root@cutlass v1.5]$ chown -R apache:apache sandbox
[root@cutlass v1.5]$ exit
[slavinsk@cutlass v1.5]$ cd ~/temp/workspace/
[slavinsk@cutlass workspace]$ svn co http://localhost/svn/sandbox
Authentication realm: <http://localhost:80> Sandbox SVN Repository (v1.5)
Password for 'slavinsk':
Checked out revision 0.
[slavinsk@cutlass workspace]$ cd sandbox/
[slavinsk@cutlass sandbox]$ touch test.txt
[slavinsk@cutlass sandbox]$ svn add test.txt
A         test.txt
[slavinsk@cutlass sandbox]$ svn commit -m "Committing a dummy file"
Adding         test.txt
Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Valid UTF-8 data
(hex: 1c)
followed by invalid UTF-8 sequence
(hex: a4 01)
[slavinsk@cutlass sandbox]$ svn status
A      test.txt
[slavinsk@cutlass sandbox]$ svnlook tree /svn/v1.5/sandbox
/
 test.txt

Original issue reported by whitson