[geeks] Anyone use Subversion?

[Jay Monkman]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:34:56PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Jay Monkman wrote:
> > None of that sounds typical. At least not for me, and I've been using SVN on several 
> > Debian systems for more than 5 years. I've also used it on Windows and other
> > Linux distros. 
> > 
> > From what I found on the web, the entropy problem is caused libapr. I would have
> > expected it to be built to use /dev/urandom on Linux. I believe that it's a configure
> > option.
> 
> OK, I didn't find any libapr references.  I would ASSUME the Debian
> package would be built against /dev/urandom myself.

Is it a recent version of Debian?

Another thing to try is to check if the server has a built in random number 
generator hardware (some chipsets do) and enable. That should allow /dev/random
to keep up.


> > I don't know why your .svn directories would have gotten corrupted.
> 
> Nor do I, but it wasn't my commit that became corrupted.  I think part
> of that problem may have been "client's source control procedures are
> not good".

That's a very polite way of explaining it. :-)