Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Mon Sep 28 17:39:00 GMT 2009


On 9/25/2009 10:49 PM, Chris Cormie wrote:
> I updated Cygwin today via setup.exe and Subversion ceased working:
> 
> $ svn status
> $
> 
> ie no output whatsoever regardless of what command is given to svn 
> including --help.
[snip]
> I hadn't updated for several months so a dozen or so packages were 
> updated. As far as I know setup.exe doesn't keep a log so I can't tell 
> you which packages got updated. My current system state is attached.
[snip]
> Is this a general issue that needs to be investigated or specific to my 
> install?

This sounds like you're missing a dependency required by subversion, 
although I can't see what it is from your cygcheck output. I use 
subversion daily in both 1.5 and 1.7 and it works fine, so this is not a 
general problem.

I suggest sending the output of "cygcheck /bin/svn" to the list as an 
attachment.

You can also try running "strace /bin/svn". This will produce a lot of 
output which I would ignore for now. If svn is having a problem finding 
another DLL, strace should open a pop-up telling you what is missing.

Please post any findings back to the list so I can fix the svn package's 
dependencies if needed.

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David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

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