https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66104
--- Comment #6 from Thomas Schweikle <t...@vr-web.de> --- Looks like you are using subversion 1.6.11 (r934486) for your server. The error is known. An upgrade would solve it. https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201307.mbox/%3c503643e3cdb1b140a24214c3484dce8c01689...@hwde-muc-ma-1.de.hyperwave.com%3E The server seems to respond with an incomplete XML document structure. Closing tags may be missing or not nested correctly: Missing: <tag> something EOD Incorrect nesting: <tag_1> <tag_2> </tag_1> </tag_2> Clients choke on these. In our case: the server isn't closing an open tag. Some clients respond with the error I gave. Some tell "Connection timed out" waiting on the closing tag. To successfully checkout sources we would have to find a client not choking on such malformed XML-Documents. I'am sure there are some around, but not at most halfway up to date distros. And it wouldn't make sense to install an old quite outdated subversion client if the recommended server version ist 1.8.13, the older supported version is 1.7.20 and your servers version ist at outdated unsupported 1.6.11 if the subverrsion website is correct: https://subversion.apache.org/download/ I think you might be best of upgrading your server to the latest available, recommended version.