On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Dave Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, and apologies in advance if I'm being thick. I'm writing as a TSVN > user, not a developer, but I've posted to the users list without much > success, and this is about the pre-release version. > I have local TSVN and Visual SVN Server installs that have been running fine > for multiple years, running 1.6-something for a while. Hadn't done anything > with them for some time, went to commit some changes, and Tortoise said > "Unable to connect to repository at URL [..] Options of [...] could not > connect to server at [...]". No authentication prompt, just that msg. I do > see overlay icons in Windows explorer, and I can check for modifications, so > the client itself seems to be working, it just can't connect. (Don't think > it needs to talk to the repository to show icons or check for changes.) > Connecting to my local subversion server with firefox prompted me for login, > as it should, then worked fine. Tried connecting to > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/, just to hit something > besides my own server, again fine in firefox (no login prompt), same failure > in TSVN. Tried a local file URL in TSVN, same result. Did a checkout from my > local repository using the SVN support in IDEA over https, no problem. > However, there's an error msg in the Commit dlg that the working copy is at > SVNKit 1.4, and I need to upgrade the version in IDEA for correct operation. > Cleared both the URL history and Authentication data from the TSVN Saved > Settings panel. Tried temporarily shutting off Win7 UAC, windows firewall, > and antivirus. Tried using localhost and 127.0.0.1 urls instead of my > machine name, username@repository_url, and explicitly specifiying :443 in > the url, none of which I'd ever done before. General > Subversion > > Subversion configuration file has only comments in it. No proxy settings in > Network. This is my personal laptop at home, no corporate policies or forced > proxies in play. > Tried upgrading to the latest version of VisualSVN, which now contains > Subversion 1.6.17. Tried upgrading to the TSNV 1.7 pre-release, specifically > 1.6.99, Build 21923 - 64 Bit, same results with local and remote servers. > Uninstalled TSVN completely, including manually deleting everything in > C:\Users\{me}\AppData\Roaming\Subversion, reinstalled TSVN 1.7, re-ran > installation doing Repair the second time (not sure if that's still needed > or not). > Looked in the Windows event log, nothing that seemed relevant. This is > Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. > So: > - Am I correct that TSVN 1.7 *should* connect to 1.6 servers and > repositories? > - Is anyone aware of major problems in that area? > - Where might I find logs or other info about what went wrong, other than > the system event log? > - Any other theories of what might prevent TSVN from connecting to a *local* > repository, at both html and file urls, and to an anonymously accessible > remote url, given the things I've tried? Keep in mind that I installed 1.7 > only after this problem appeared with 1.6. > I'm at my wit's end. I've spent hours getting nowhere. If anyone has any > ideas of other things to try or look at, I'd appreciate it very much. > Thanks, > Dave
Rolled TSVN back to 1.6.16, Build 21511 - 64 Bit, disabled antivirus, UAC, and windows firewall, still unable to connect at all through Tortoise. No login prompt, nothing, just fails with the above error. SVN in IDEA works fine. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave
