Package: libapache2-svn Version: 1.1.3-1 Severity: normal A recent upgrade caused my commits to fail for a day until I realized what was going on. The message at the client was svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of '/svn/!svn/act/48a528a5-b8ef-0310-9939-d2c23b6a7cc5': 500 Internal Server Error (http://localhost:8000) (client using ssh to tunnel to server).
The apache logs showed the slightly more informative [Wed Feb 09 10:56:27 2005] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] configuration error: couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /svn/!svn/act/de5d679f-b2ef-\ 0310-b465-b74a39834e52 I think there may be two issues here: 1. The default apache .conf snippet has all the AuthType's commented out, which apparently is an error. This may have been a deliberate effort to force the installer to intervene in the file; if not, perhaps you should enable one so it works out of the box. (Though it probably needs a path anyway...). 2. Though I did eventually notice the permission change in the changelog, you might want to make it more prominent, for example making it a NEWS item, and/or have a configuration question for upgraders. Even the README.Debian has no mention of this issue. For the record, I solved the problem by deleting /etc/apache2/mods-enabled's symlink to dav_svn.conf, thereby reverting to my previous settings in conf.d/. I'm not sure if the file there was originally created by the package or me. I guess the intent now is to edit /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf in place? The severity is a compromise between the somewhat trivial nature of the issues or fixes and the severity of the resulting problem, which took the server out of action. I won't be too offended if you write this all off as pilot error, but I suspect other pilots might run into the same problem, so it would be nice to avoid it. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libapache2-svn depends on: ii apache2-mpm-worker [apache2 2.0.52-3 High speed threaded model for Apac ii db4.2-util 4.2.52-17 Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libsvn0 1.1.3-1 shared libraries used by Subversio -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
