SVN upgrade errors and solutions

I ran into some Subversion issues while upgrading an old Subversion instance from 1.5.5 to 1.7. The process also involved moving the repositories from a 32bit 1CPU 2GB virtual server to a 64bit 2CPU 4GB virtual server.  I’m also running Subversion Edge, as the svn user and apache as the apache user.

  

Subversion (SVN): Can’t open file ‘db/txn-current-lock’: Permission denied

Discussion: Ownership on the repository db directory is incorrect

# ls -ld /<repo-path>/<repo>/db

drwxrwsr-x 6 svn svn 4096 Sep 20 12:45 db

Solution:  Change ownership

                # chown –R svn:apache db

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Subversion (SVN): Can’t write activity db

Discussion: Ownership on the repository dav directory is incorrect

# ls -ld /<repo-path>/<repo>/dav

drwxrwxr-x 3 svn apache 4096 Sep 19 17:04 dav

Solution: Change ownership of the dav directory

          # cd /<repo-path>/<repo>/

    # chown –R apache:apache dav

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Subversion (SVN): “attempt to write a readonly database”

Discussion: The file “rep-cache.db” has the incorrect permissions

#ls -l rep-cache.db

-rw-r--r-- 1 svn apache 81920 Sep 20 13:09 rep-cache.db

Solution: Change ownership on rep-cache.db

    # cd /<repo-path>/<repo>/db

    # chmod 664 rep-cache.db