svnadmin create: Option Expected

Question

Can someone enlighten me on this...

When I uncomment the line in /etc/subversion/config store-auth-creds = no, and when I create a new repo, I see the following error:

svnadmin: /etc/subversion/config:37: Option Expected

I understand that that 37 line is pointing to the store-auth-creds = no option but what option does svnadmin expect now??

Kind of new in SVN.. =) and I'm using Ubuntu 9.1 for my SVN.

Answer 1

Either your svnadmin does not recognize store-auth-creds or you have messed up the config file as you edited it (a space character where it doesn't belong etc).

Answer 2

Try to remove the white spaces before the options enabled.

For example in svnserve.conf we enable following options :

anon-access=read
auth-access=write
password-db=passwd

Make sure there is not even single space before these options. I was facing same issue and it resolved when I checked it for extra spaces in such conf file.

In your case there must be space before

store-auth-creds=no

remove those extra spaces and problem will be resolved.

Answer 3

ran into a similar problem. Was getting the following error "svn E200002: error while parsing config file"

White spaces was the cause. removing resolved

store-passwords = yes
store-ssl-client-cert-pp = yes
store-plaintext-passwords = yes
store-ssl-client-cert-pp-plaintext = yes

Answer 4

NOTE: Also make sure to remove any leading spaces from the lines.

Answer 5

I ran into the same problem, trying to set up subversion for my Xcode project.

svnadmin: /Users/admin/.subversion/config:94: Option expected

For some reason, subversion's config file has split line 94, chopping up comments that are started by ### into 2 separate lines. Edit the config file to restore the comment to 1 line, or add ### to the front of the 2nd line. Voila, problem solved.