TortoiseSVN Unable to openan ra_local session to URL win XP

Question

Hello!

I'm trying to use svn through svnTortoise on a windows xp machine. Its just me, just trying to do it in house. On my laptop I installed tortoise and everything works great. Then I came to my desktop and installed svnTortoise and tried it. But this time I get these errors.

Checkout from file://F:/repos/mav_admin, revision HEAD, Fully recursive, Externals included
Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
Unable to open repository 'file://f:/repos/mav_admin'
Finished!

I've tried for local repositories, or the same repositories that my laptop was using... nothing seems to work. Any ideas?

Anytime I try to import or checkout on my desktop I get the above error, but not when I use my laptop. My laptop is running Vista... (didn't want to pay to downgrade...) and my desktop computer is a 64-bit computer... but I'm running 32-bit XP.

Tortoise Info is

TortoiseSVN 1.6.0, Build 15855 - 32 Bit , 2009/03/21 12:36:36
Subversion 1.6.0, 
apr 1.3.3
apr-utils 1.3.4
neon 0.28.4
OpenSSL 0.9.8j 07 Jan 2009
zlib 1.2.3

Answer 1

See unable-to-open-repository-error-on-windows-xp for a similar problem.

Possible causes:

• Are you using the same client on all computers? I think the Tortoise 1.6 may drop support for file:// access.
• Are you using a BDB or fsfs repository?
• Do you have correct file permissions to the repository?

UPDATE: From tsvn_1.6_releasenotes.html

TortoiseSVN 1.6 no longer supports access to BDB repositories via the file:/// url. This doesn't affect accessing BDB repositories over svn:// or http:// though.

If you have a BDB repository that you still access via the file:/// url, you have to convert the repository to the FSFS format with the svnadmin tool which is available in the SVN command line client.

Please follow the instructions in the Subversion book to convert the repository.

Answer 2

You need a third '/' before the drive letter:

file:///F:/repos/mav_admin