SVN repository problems?

> On 29 December 2012 03:16, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I've been trying to do a checkout to start getting things on the
>> RaspberryPi archived and all I get is the infamous (and described in about
>> six million different ways in error reports all across the web) '200 OK'
>> error. My current copies of the RISC OS sources are so old they still have
>> the HP server urls in there!
>>
>> The svn app I'm using is quite happy with a couple of other repositories,
>> so I guess there might be some problem related to rebooting the servers
>> earlier today? A 200 error (even though it declares itself with 'OK", nice
>> error reporting there, whoever wrote that part!) appears to have something
>> to do with the Apache setup of the relevant site but honestly, if you
>> google 'svn options of 200 ok checkout' you'll find the problem mentioned
>> a gazillion times and eleventy times as many supposed explanations. Not
>> too helpful.
>>
>> Can anyone else do a `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk
>> platforms` ?
>
> I could, once I installed subversion ;).
>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking?
>>
>>
>>
>
>

> I did
>     sudo apt-get install subversion
> on my 12.04 Ubuntu
>
> Then
>     `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk platforms` ?
>
> It hangs...
>
> On 12/29/12, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On 29 December 2012 03:16, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> I've been trying to do a checkout to start getting things on the
>>> RaspberryPi archived and all I get is the infamous (and described in
>>> about
>>> six million different ways in error reports all across the web) '200 OK'
>>> error. My current copies of the RISC OS sources are so old they still
>>> have
>>> the HP server urls in there!
>>>
>>> The svn app I'm using is quite happy with a couple of other
>>> repositories,
>>> so I guess there might be some problem related to rebooting the servers
>>> earlier today? A 200 error (even though it declares itself with 'OK",
>>> nice
>>> error reporting there, whoever wrote that part!) appears to have
>>> something
>>> to do with the Apache setup of the relevant site but honestly, if you
>>> google 'svn options of 200 ok checkout' you'll find the problem
>>> mentioned
>>> a gazillion times and eleventy times as many supposed explanations. Not
>>> too helpful.
>>>
>>> Can anyone else do a `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk
>>> platforms` ?
>>
>> I could, once I installed subversion ;).
>>
>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

> It gives as answer
>     A: command not found
>
> On 12/29/12, H. Hirzel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I did
>>     sudo apt-get install subversion
>> on my 12.04 Ubuntu
>>
>> Then
>>     `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk platforms` ?
>>
>> It hangs...
>>
>> On 12/29/12, Frank Shearar <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> On 29 December 2012 03:16, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to do a checkout to start getting things on the
>>>> RaspberryPi archived and all I get is the infamous (and described in
>>>> about
>>>> six million different ways in error reports all across the web) '200
>>>> OK'
>>>> error. My current copies of the RISC OS sources are so old they still
>>>> have
>>>> the HP server urls in there!
>>>>
>>>> The svn app I'm using is quite happy with a couple of other
>>>> repositories,
>>>> so I guess there might be some problem related to rebooting the servers
>>>> earlier today? A 200 error (even though it declares itself with 'OK",
>>>> nice
>>>> error reporting there, whoever wrote that part!) appears to have
>>>> something
>>>> to do with the Apache setup of the relevant site but honestly, if you
>>>> google 'svn options of 200 ok checkout' you'll find the problem
>>>> mentioned
>>>> a gazillion times and eleventy times as many supposed explanations. Not
>>>> too helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone else do a `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk
>>>> platforms` ?
>>>
>>> I could, once I installed subversion ;).
>>>
>>>> tim
>>>> --
>>>> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>>> Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

> OK, so it looks like it mostly works, with some small issues along the way
> for Hannes. Sigh, that means there is something annoying in the path between
> my RISC OS shell and the server.
>
> What amazed and horrified me was finding that so many people have had this
> error occur and yet the apparent explanations for the problem seem never to
> be the same twice; that makes solving so much more difficult. Imagine if the
> VM randomly inserted an instruction every now and then.
>
> Well thanks for testing for me. Let's see what I can find out today...
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> All programmers are poor playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
>
>
>
>

>
> On 29-12-2012, at 10:57 AM, "H. Hirzel" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Are you doing
>>   `svn co http://squeakvm.org//svn/squeak/trunk platforms`
>> on the R Pi?
>>
>> Maybe it is just slow (time out which is not indicated...) and it is
>> better to do it on another machine?
>
> I am indeed running it on the PI. I doubt a timeout is the problem simply
> because the response is instant and also because fetching a large source
> tree from another repository works perfectly. I wish I had a tool that
> showed all the net traffic to see if I have a badly setup connection on the
> pi or maybe my router. It is odd that it works ok for `svn co
> http://ro-oslib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ro-oslib/trunk/!OSLib oslib`
> though.
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; [hidden email]; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Unix love: unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount;
> sleep
>
>
>

>
> On 29-12-2012, at 12:33 PM, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > . So now I have a mystery whereby the iMac can get squeak sources, the pi cannot, but can get other sources. What fun computers are :-)
>
>
> Mystery solved.
>
> One of the problems afflicting us when moving information from one place to another and there is no direct route to do that  -ie when between-machine networking is not yet functioning - is that we have to manually transcribe cryptic phrases. So I had http://squeakvm.org/squeak/trunk as the path to the SVN tree. It should have been http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk. Sigh.
>
> Of course, once one has wrongly transcribed the information that's it - you'll never spot the mistake until you've made a fool of yourself or, occasionally, killed someone.