Unable to Add Subversion Repository Due to Cannot create directory /home/jira/.subversion/auth/svn.simple Error
Symptoms
When adding a Subversion Repository using the JIRA Subversion Plugin
, the process fails and the following error appears in the atlassian-jira.log
file:
2011-12-20 14:47:17,555 TP-Processor122 ERROR gbbbz 887x354395x1 admin 10.60.1.11 /secure/AddSubversionRepository.jspa[plugin.ext.subversion.SubversionManagerImpl] Connection to Subversion repository https://example.com/svn/repository failed: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: Cannot create directory '/data/opt/atlassian-jira/.subversion/auth/svn.simple'
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: Cannot create directory '/data/opt/atlassian-jira/.subversion/auth/svn.simple'
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:51)
[.....]
Cause
This problem could happen because the user home directory (based on the above exceptions, /data/opt/atlassian-jira)
do not exists. Hence, users are unable to add any Subversion repository and the "Cannot create directory" error is thrown in the logs file.
Resolution
Resolution 1
- As an attempt to fix the problem, we can try to add the
-Duser.home=/path/to/directory
to thesetenv.bat
(for Windows) orsetenv.sh
(for UNIX)
Resolution 2
- Manually create the
/home/jira/.subversion/auth/svn.simple
directory
Last modified on May 24, 2016
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