On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:16, Bethel, Zach wrote: > >> I am encountering a strange issue. I have a Linux server (I tried both RHEL >> 6 and Ubuntu Server 11.03) exporting a folder on an EXT3 partition via NFS. >> I also have a Mac OS X Lion client that is mounting that NFS share. There is >> a repository on the SVN server that checks out fine to the local disk of the >> Mac. It also checks out fine to an NFS mounted folder on a Linux client. >> However, when I try to check it out to a folder on the Mac that is mounted >> with NFS via the command 'svn co URL', I get the following error on the >> terminal: >> >> svn: In directory 'NAV/trunk/VerseMinder/VerseMinder/VerseMinder' >> svn: Can't open file >> 'NAV/trunk/VerseMinder/VerseMinder/VerseMinder/.svn/tmp/text-base/._FlashCard.m.svn-base': >> No such file or directory >> >> From what I can tell, I get no information in system.log. I have tried this >> using a Samba mount as well and receive the same error. The error happens >> every time and at the same point in the process. Does anybody have any idea >> what could be going on? We've tried both NFS 3 and 4 (and Samba) with the >> same result. I am beginning to think this may be an SVN bug. > > Well, "._" is the prefix of an AppleDouble file: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_formats > > Presumably OS X is trying to store some extended attributes for the > FlashCards.m file, and because the directory is on NFS, has to resort to > using an AppleDouble file to store that information, but for some reason the > server is not storing it. Or perhaps what happens is that, when FlashCards.m > is initially created by svn in your working copy, presumably in a directory > other than tmp/text-base (perhaps directly in tmp?), the ._FlashCards.m file > is made there as well, but when svn then moves FlashCards.m into > tmp/textbase, it doesn't also move the ._FlashCards.m file as well. > > I'm not sure exactly what is going on, but I'm pretty sure the problem will > go away if you check out to a local disk, which is what we recommend anyway. > Subversion often does not work well on NFS so I suggest you avoid it. > > Or do you actually have ._FlashCards.m in the repository? If so, then you > should probably remove it and any other AppleDouble files from the > repository, and add autoprops to ignore AppleDouble files, and add a > pre-commit hook to prevent committing them.
Just wanted to add: the fact that you mention ".svn/tmp/text-base" indicates that you're using svn 1.6 or older. Can you try the same with the latest version, i.e. a 1.7 svn client? -- Johan
