svn: E120108: Unable to connect to SVN repo

Question

I recently replaced the hard drive of my Mac so I reinstalled SVN. But I can't connect to the repository, and the errors are:

svn: E120108: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'xxxxxx'
svn: E120108: Error running context: The server unexpectedly closed the connection.

I can access the URL in browser. SVN is also installed correctly. When I type svn --version it shows that I have SVN 1.8.3.

Has anyone seen the same problem before. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

The removal of the auth folders did not work for me but I resolved a similar issue by using the https protocol in the URL as opposed to http (though the browser displays with the latter). Hope this helps others.

Answer 2

Check if you have a DNS A/AAAA Records addresses to ipv6. I remove the ipv6 address and it works.

Answer 3

I had the same issue with a recent install of SVN version 1.8.5 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system.

Clearing out the saved authentication files and just re-authenticating fixed the issue for me. I deleted all the files with hashed names underneath the C:\Users[My User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\auth[authentication type]\ directories. The next time I ran SVN, it prompted me for my credentials and updated without a problem.