>> Since posting the question, I tried using "svnserve" instead of >> Apache (the mod_dav_svn module), and the error does NOT occur in >> this case (we would still prefer to stick with mod_dav_svn). > > How did you manage permissions using svnserver? You mentioned a group > which you gave read/write access for the file. Did you made > svnserve-deamon member of thet group or did something else? I thought > of lock files rep-cache.db which may be not created during > insufficient permissions on the parent directory. But I don't know if > SQLite works this way.
I ran the svnserver test as root, without any restrictions. But I don't think it's a permission issue on the rep-cache.db file since I even tried giving it unrestricted read/write access to be sure that wasn't the case. Could other files be involved?