
After upgrading my subversion on my server to version 1.5.1, I started getting the following error for all newly created repositories (on commit):
svn: Can’t open activity db: APR does not understand this error code
Oddly, all my existing repositories worked fine. Googling didnt help me, though it did point to the direction that it was Apache not having enough rights. chmodding 770 didnt help. Chowning to www-data didnt help (both was the recomended solution everywhere i looked). Finally figured out that a folder was missing in the new project directory. This solved the problem for me:
$ cd /path/to/your/repository
$ mkdir dav
$ chown www-data: dav
So i thought id stick it online here, to help anyone else not finding the right solution on the web.
- Dan
