Hi Philip, On 2/12/16 2:19 AM, Philip Martin wrote: > Steffen Moser <li...@steffen-moser.de> writes: > >> | Running tests in commit_tests.py [43/84]......................success > > One of the tests in commit_tests.py is 'hook_test' which runs start-, > pre- and post- hooks. So it appears that your build can run hooks.
Thank you very much - this was a very important piece of information which I was not aware of. > Not clear why you get a hang in your normal configuration. Perhaps one > of the other Apache modules? It seems that this was the solution! After knowing that the test script also checks the hooks, I was indeed sure that there must have been something different between my build system and my standard configuration. I bisected the list of modules which are loaded in my standard configuration. Finally, it turned out that "mod_ssl" was the cause of the problem. Actually, the problem was not caused by loading the Apache module. It was rather triggered by the fact that in the test-clone of my working environment where I encountered it, I accessed all of my SVN repositories via HTTPS (of course, because our users login to access the SVN repositories). So I saw that I could avoid the problem by accessing the SVN repository via HTTP instead of HTTPS. After learning this, I had a look at the HTTPS part of my site-specific Apache configuration (/etc/apache2/2.4/sites.d/...). There I found a strange configuration line: SSLCryptoDevice pkcs11 from which I think that is was supposedly a relict of an UltraSPARC T2 configuration. The newer CPUs of the UltraSPARC platform come with a hardware device to support hardware-based cryptography and Oracle seems to have an individual set of patches for SSL to enable the access to this device. Most probably (I am not sure yet), this line is just useless on an x86_64 architecture which we use. At least, the code introduced or activated with this line doesn't seem to be thread-safe. So disabling this option solved the problem for me. So far I can say that SVN now seems to work via HTTPS on our system (Solaris 11.3, x86_64, Apache 2.4.12, SVN 1.7.20). Thanks again for your help. Your hint about the fact that the test script includes hook tests was very important and helpful. Kind regards, Steffen -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Moser School of Advanced Professional Studies Room: O27/317 Ulm University Tel: +49.731.50-24179 Albert-Einstein-Allee 11 Fax: +49.731.50-24182 89081 Ulm, Germany http://saps.uni-ulm.de/
