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Jamison Dance
Jamison Dance

Reputation: 20184

What does the subversion error "Could not read status line" mean?

This is a fairly basic question, but it is driving me nuts. I have set up a brand new repository at beanstalk.com. They give me the url, http://my_name.svn.beanstalkapp.com/blog. They also automatically create the tag, trunk and branches folder in the repository. I have checked out the trunk folder and used 

svn add
to add the new file. I am trying to do my first commit, but I get this error:

Commit failed (details follow):
CHECKOUT of '/foo/!svn/bln/1': Could not read status line: 
connection was closed by server. (http://user_name@my_name.svn.beanstalkapp.com)

What does this mean, and what causes it? I have googled for a definition of what "Could not read status line" means, but was unable to find anything explaining it.

edit: I was getting this error while trying to manipulate my repository from behind a firewall. I still don't know what was causing it, but I don't have this problem at home. Strangeness.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 15519

Answers (4)

Hostingviet
Hostingviet

Reputation: 21

I read somewhere that is because the http method. Please change to https to resolve this problem https://my_name.svn.beanstalkapp.com/blog

Upvotes: 2

John DB
John DB

Reputation: 101

I also had the same problem when I typed the wrong URL:

Bad behavior:

$ svn list https://zh3.beanstalkapp.com/repo

To fix the problem, the URL should be: https://zh3.svn.beanstalkapp.com/repo

Upvotes: 4

Jafin
Jafin

Reputation: 4371

I had the same error. In our case it was the Mcafee antivirus software on the server repository stealing the file when commited via subversion. Resulting in the svn error.

Disabling the virus software solved our issue.

Upvotes: 0

Henry Ryng
Henry Ryng

Reputation: 21

i had same issue.. until i remebered i needed https at front

Upvotes: 2

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