[oXygen-user] SynchroSVN unable to connect to repository - error Malformed Network Data

Sorin Ristache
Tue Jan 29 01:21:38 CST 2008


Thank you for letting us know about the solution.


Regards,
Sorin


Jeff Gaer wrote:
> Thanks Sorin, 
> 
>  That was it, I had added a ulimit statment and apparently it prints out
> a return code. Its working fine now. I appreciate the rapid response,
> its a great tool and I was really missing it. 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:30 +0200, Sorin Ristache wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do you try to connect with the svn+ssh protocol? If yes the error svn: 
>> Malformed Network Data is caused usually by a shell script that is 
>> executed automatically in your account on the server when you login and 
>> that displays text to output console. When the text output is received 
>> by a client application that connects to the server by SSH that text 
>> violates the SVN protocol. Please make sure that this script does not 
>> send text to the output, that is the script does not display any text 
>> when you login to your account on the server with a normal SSH client 
>> where you type the commands and see the result in a text console. You 
>> should rename or remove the shell script to make sure the script sends 
>> no output text and try again to connct to the SVN repository with Syncro 
>> SVN Client. The script can be called .cshrc or .bashrc and is located in 
>> your home folder on the server.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sorin
>>
>>
>> Jeff Gaer wrote:
>>> I can open a repository connection and see the url appear in the 
>>> repository pane, but can no longer browse the repository or commit. The 
>>> error I get is malformed network data. There is no other useful 
>>> information that I can find.
>>>
>>> we are running svn 1.4.4 on linux 4 using java 1.6.0.3_02
>>>
>>> I have the problem both with the 2.6 and 3.0 versions of synchro
>>>
>>> Jeff Gaer



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