I'm attempting to use svn (client-side) on an Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine and, although I am able to check out without issue, I seem unable to commit changes to the repository and get the error:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/rockoon_repos/!svn/act/8ed27527-fbfc-4dd5-b2aa-5a4d4b3e4e14'

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the fact that the svn server uses ssl authentication (the server is running subversion+apache on a windows server box in case that matters).

The strange thing is that I am able to commit to the same repository on another computer using Tortise SVN (ie on Windows) without issue, so it seems that the issue must be client side (most resolutions I found for this issue online seemed to be server side fixes). I've also checked to make sure that I'm using "https" in the checkout URL.

Any ideas? Thanks

1) Have you confirmed that your tortoise client is actually using https and not the native svn protocol?
2) Assuming you are using authentication, have you tested the same username using both clients?
3) Have you checked out the apache error log to see if anything useful is being logged?


--jesse