Bug#388835: subversion: (svn cp) svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

[Peter Samuelson]

[sean finney]
> > > svn: Berkeley DB error for filesystem '/home/seanius/svn/db' while opening environment:
> > > svn: No such file or directory
> > > svn: bdb: no absolute path for the current directory: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Very odd - I don't know what to make of it.  It's almost as though
> > something did 'chdir(some_path)' followed by 'rmdir(some_path)'
> 
> yes, it looks like this is exactly what svn-buildpackage is doing. 

Sorry for ignoring this for so long - for some reason I thought I'd
already replied to this message.

The reason Subversion throws this error now (as of 1.3.2-5) and not
before is that it is using new features of Berkeley DB 4.4.  Berkeley
DB now wants to know the current directory so it can look for a
configuration file there.  So arguably the bug is really in libdb4.4,
which should fail a bit more gracefully.

Either way, I don't think this is something I can easily fix from the
Subversion end.  Since the bug is now over a month old, can you test to
see if it still exists?  (I don't use svn-buildpackage; its changelog
does not indicate that this issue was fixed, but it may have been.)
Feel free to reassign this bug or close it, depending on whether it
still exists.  Or, let me know, and I can do it.

Thanks,
Peter
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