Svn – Subversion: Can’t move… Permission Denied

permissionssvnsvnserve

Whilst trying to commit some files to SVN, we're suddenly all getting this error

    Can't move '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/txn-protorevs/2002-8.rev' 
to '/usr/local/svn/articles/db/revs/2/2003': Permission denied

I checked the permissions in the repository, and they look the same as all our other repositories, yet this is the only repo that causes the error.

Any ideas how I can fix this?

SVN is running as root on Linux via svnserve, FWIW.

Best Answer

With the repositories I manage, the repository contents themselves are owned by apache:apache. Trying to do something as root without using sudo -u apache usually creates this situation for me. A good chown -R apache.apache {repo root} will usually fix it, as you indicated.

My guess is that you performed some function via the filesystem as someone other than root.

Related Topic