Sorry everyone, I mis-spoke below. While looking at this issue I was also filing a bug report on the maven jar signing plugin, which also has a problem when the network is flaky. That is the thing that was calling out to the timestamp server, not svn. I got mixed up, sorry.
Regarding the comment that was made, I don't know exactly how the svn repo is hosted in the corporate environment I am in. It is accessed via an http URL (not https, I know). The underlying filesystem is Windows because every now and then we get aggro due to the case preserving behaviour of the Windows filesystem. But is it on a network share? Not sure, but I don't think so. IMO that would be an extremely bad setup. -----Original Message----- From: Marlow, Andrew <andrew.mar...@fisglobal.com> Sent: 24 April 2019 09:52 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: svn version 1.10 lack of robustness in presence of flaky network Reply below: -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> Sent: 24 April 2019 07:54 To: Marlow, Andrew <andrew.mar...@fisglobal.com> Cc: Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com>; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: svn version 1.10 lack of robustness in presence of flaky network On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:55:47AM +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 9:22 AM Marlow, Andrew > <andrew.mar...@fisglobal.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I got this error below during an svn co command. It left my workspace in a > > bad state from which I had to do svn cleanup before trying again (the retry > > worked): [snip] > > I think this happens when the network is flaky. This error happened on > > windows but I have also seen it happen on solaris 10. Has anyone else seen > > this? If it is due to network flakiness then perhaps svn should retry to > > work around this transparently, and thus be more robust? Perhaps it could > > retry up to 3 times with a sleep a 1 second between retries? > > Is your working copy on a network filesystem (CIFS, NFS, ...)? [snip] While working copies on networks filesystems should generally work, such use is strongly discouraged. [snip] No. There is no network filesystem (CIFS) here. What about when I am using solaris? That's proof that it cannot be due to CIFS. The internet is being used because that it is where the timestamp server is. When the code tries to call out to that timeserver it has to travel via the corporate network, including navigating via the internet proxy. This network call fails randomly due a flaky network. The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. FIS is a trading name of the following companies: Fidelity Information Services Ltd (registered in England No.02225203), FIS Payments (UK) Ltd (No.04215488), FIS Asiapacrim Holdings Ltd (No.06707320), Certegy Card Services Ltd (No.03517639) and Efunds International Ltd (No.01930117), all with their registered office at Floor 1, 51/53 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8TU, United Kingdom; and FIS Payments (Ireland) Ltd (registered in Ireland No.126879), with its registered office at 25/28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 H104, Ireland. FIS Payments (UK) Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority; some services are covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service (in the UK). Calls to and from the companies may be recorded for quality purposes. All of the above companies are part of FIS (Fidelity National Information Services Inc.). The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. FIS is a trading name of the following companies: Fidelity Information Services Ltd (registered in England No.02225203), FIS Payments (UK) Ltd (No.04215488), FIS Asiapacrim Holdings Ltd (No.06707320), Certegy Card Services Ltd (No.03517639) and Efunds International Ltd (No.01930117), all with their registered office at Floor 1, 51/53 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8TU, United Kingdom; and FIS Payments (Ireland) Ltd (registered in Ireland No.126879), with its registered office at 25/28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1, D01 H104, Ireland. FIS Payments (UK) Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority; some services are covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service (in the UK). Calls to and from the companies may be recorded for quality purposes. All of the above companies are part of FIS (Fidelity National Information Services Inc.).
