On Jul 21, 2011, at 22:09, Andy Canfield wrote: > I have Ubuntu Linux 10.4 installed on my notebook computer named Lenny. I > have the same system installed on my desktop computer named Athol (I had a > lot of trouble getting that hardware to work). I have installed the Ubuntu > Subversion packages on each; namely > subversion > libapache2-svn > libgirepository-1.0-1 > In both cases the SVNParentPath is /data/svn and that directory is owned by > www-data: > drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-22 09:16 /data/svn > > Here is the critical command: > sudo -u www-data svnadmin create /data/svn/boofar > On Lenny the command works, silently. On Athol I get this message: > svnadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libsvn_repos-1.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > Apparently svnadmin cannot find something, but I don't know what it can't > find. In both cases /usr/lib/libsvn_repos-1.so.1 is a symoblic link to: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153700 2011-06-05 22:48 > /usr/lib/libsvn_repos-1.so.1.0.0 > > I Googled for that error message and somebody had a problem with the home > directory locations. The implication was that for some reason a Subversion > distribution hard-codes the name of the home directory parent path (e.g. > "/home"). No problem with my home directories; the arrangement is identical. > On both machines my home directory is /data/andy and /home/andy is a symbolic > link to /data/andy. > > So any idea why svnadmin runs OK on one machine and fails on the other?
Is there perhaps a second (older) copy of Subversion or its libraries installed, perhaps provided by your distribution? If so, try uninstalling that.
