I recently had the same problem. I never quite got it figured out, but you may have more success than I did. The important emails can be found here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201003.mbox/%3c2588da421003151412p115d5f3fo4324170d8b553...@mail.gmail.com%3e
Jeremy On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Rainer Dorsch <rdor...@web.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to checkout from a server via svn+ssh: > > r...@blackbox:~/Managed/Daten$ svn checkout > svn+ssh://rdor...@hdcl037/var/svn/OSSM/svn-repository/trunk OSSM > > Enter passphrase for key '/home/rd/.ssh/id_rsa': > rdor...@hdcl037's password: > svn: Expected FS format '2'; found format '4' > r...@blackbox:~/Managed/Daten$ > > I think the problem is that on the server there is a default installation of > svn: > > hdcl037: rdorsch $ svn --version > svn, version 1.4.2 (r22196) > compiled Nov 20 2006, 07:17:37 > > Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet. > Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ > This product includes software developed by CollabNet > (http://www.Collab.Net/). > > The following repository access (RA) modules are available: > > * ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol. > - handles 'http' scheme > - handles 'https' scheme > * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. > - handles 'svn' scheme > * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. > - handles 'file' scheme > > hdcl037: rdorsch $ > > and a more recent version in a non-standard dir (which is added to my path > in .bash_profile) > > hdcl037: rdorsch $ svn --version > svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367) > compiled Apr 16 2010, 15:19:25 > > Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. > Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ > This product includes software developed by CollabNet > (http://www.Collab.Net/). > > The following repository access (RA) modules are available: > > * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. > - handles 'http' scheme > * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. > - with Cyrus SASL authentication > - handles 'svn' scheme > * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. > - handles 'file' scheme > * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf. > - handles 'http' scheme > - handles 'https' scheme > > hdcl037: rdorsch $ > > I expect that .bash_profile is not executed when I do svn+ssh, but it is when > I do ssh into the host regularly. > > I have now root access to the server containing the repository, I cannot use > keypair authentification. > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > Rainer > > -- > Rainer Dorsch > Lärchenstr. 6 > D-72135 Dettenhausen > 07157-734133 > email: rdor...@web.de > jabber: rdor...@jabber.org > GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E > Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ >