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Re: Subversion errors in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Schwendner)
Wed Mar 11 01:10:44 2009
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:10:33 -0400
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From: Alex Schwendner <alexrs@csail.MIT.EDU>
To: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Cc: 6.005@mit.edu, linerva@mit.edu
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Thanks Nelson! I'll let the 6.005 students know.
Best,
Alex S.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the maintainers of linux.mit.edu (or linerva.mit.edu). I
> heard from one of your students that you've been having persistent
> problems in the class with hosting subversion repositories in AFS and
> getting "permission denied" error in unexpected placed.
>
> I'm writing to let you know that as of last weekend, we've upgraded
> Linerva, including an upgrade to OpenAFS 1.4.8, which is believed to
> fix the subversion/AFS interaction. So, it should now be possible to
> just recommend that your students use linux.mit.edu to check out their
> subversion repositories, and hopefully you will not have to worry
> about this issue any more.
>
> That said, if you do hear reports of the bug striking again on
> Linerva, please let me know, and I will pass the information along to
> the OpenAFS developers.
>
> (If you're curious, the ticket documenting the bug in OpenAFS and
> efforts to track it down is at
> http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=74672)
>
> - Nelson
>
>
