Re: [viewvc-users] Annotation error

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> John Beranek wrote:
>>> John Beranek wrote:
>>>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>>> John Beranek wrote:
>>>>>> I have ViewVC 1.1.0-beta1 installed on a Linux server using:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apache 2.2.3
>>>>>> Subversion 1.5.6
>>>>>> Python 2.4.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a fairly new installation, and I've only just noticed that whenever 
>>>>>> an annotation of a file in a local Subversion repository is requested 
>>>>>> the error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Error occurred while calculating annotation data.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is shown, and no annotation is provided.
>>>>> Have you configured the svn_config_dir parameter in viewvc.conf, pointing it
>>>>> to a directory that is accessible to the user as whom ViewVC is running (the
>>>>> Apache user)?
>>>> OK, so your advice worked perfectly...until I upgraded the server to 
>>>> Subversion 1.6.1.
>>> Just a further note, I've now upgraded from 1.1.0-beta1 to 1.1.0 to 
>>> check if this solves the problem - it doesn't.
>> Thanks for the update.  I'm not aware of any changes in Subversion's Python
>> modules that would account for this, but I'll look into it.
> 
> Having just reviewed all the changes to the Python bindings between 1.5.x
> and 1.6.x, I don't see anything suspect.
[snip]
> 
> Sorry, but I can't seem to reproduce the problem.  :-(

Hmm.

> Is there anything particularly interesting about your setup or
> configuration?  Does Apache run as 'root' on your system or as something
> else (like 'httpd')?  (Your previous mails seem to indicate that it runs as
> something else.)

Nothing unusual as far as I know - CentOS 5.3 server, running Apache 
2.2.3 as the user 'apache'. Subversion 1.6.1 obtained by installing the 
"Summersoft" RPMs available at 
http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.6.1/rhel5/

I added a line of debug in the annotation exception handler that printed 
the value of cfg.options.svn_config_dir - it was as configured in 
viewvc.conf, a directory the 'apache' user can read/write to.

John.

-- 
John Beranek                         To generalise is to be an idiot.
http://redux.org.uk/                                 -- William Blake

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