[SVN-4086] "svn: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML" error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.x
• Component/s: mod_dav_svn
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Philip Martin
• Created: 20/Dec/11 09:31
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:28
• Resolved: 13/Feb/12 12:15

Description

If I create a repository to which apache has no OS write access then commits
naturally fail.  The underlying error is:

 "Can't open file '.../db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied"

but nothing gets logged in the apache error log.  The response returned to the
client includes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<D:error xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:m="http://apache.org/dav/xmlns">
<D:(null)/>
<m:human-readable errcode="13">
could not begin a transaction
</m:human-readable>
</D:error>

Note the "<D:(null)/>" which I think is invalid XML.

With neon the client reports:

svn: E175002: The POST request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse
error at line 3: error parsing attribute name
 (/obj/repo/!svn/me)

and with serf the client reports:

svn: E175002: POST request on '/obj/repo/!svn/me' failed: 500 Internal Server Error