Thank you for this report. I don't know why but the permissions on that one file were incorrect.
drwxrws--- 6 root gnueval 253 Nov 9 11:34 /srv/svn/gnueval/db Yeah, I cannot explain it .. the gnueval repository is not heavily used. I have one job that runs a `svn update' to send out a periodical email. But that is it. Thanks for the fix.