Bug#336373: subversion: svn MKCOL ssl error

[Daniel Pittman]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3
Severity: grave

G'day.

I have run into a problem where I can't commit a change to my subversion
repository via HTTP/SSL.

The problem seems identical to the one described in this bug report, but
my issues continue despite running the version that claims to have fixed
the problem.

The server is running an up-to-date version of unstable as well, and I
have verified that the same version of subversion and all appropriate
modules are installed and running on both sides.

The error I see is:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: MKCOL of '/svn/general/!svn/wrk/6796d7ea-5b09-0410-9cde-b6775cbebef8/debian/perl/librose-html-objects-perl-0.32/lib/Rose': SSL negotiation failed: SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac (https://digital-infrastructure.com.au)


There are, annoyingly enough, no errors at all in the Apache logs on the
server side, which makes tracking this down much more annoying.

The commit in question is fairly large, as it adds 8.2MB of files,
representing 662 individual files.

Other commits seem to work just fine, but they are much smaller.  

I have run into this once before -- but it was a much smaller commit, a
long time ago, and not at all reproducible.  At the time I couldn't
identify any particular cause...

I wonder if perhaps this is some sort of SSL renegotiation bug that
triggers when submitting a sufficiently large commit or something?

         Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.3-util                 4.3.29-3      Berkeley v4.3 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.55-3      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-9       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-3  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                      2.5.9-2       Apply a diff file to an original

subversion recommends no packages.

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