This is not a valid Subversion Repository: svn: E210004: Handshake failed, received: ''

Question

This is not a valid Subversion Repository: svn: E210004: Handshake failed, received: ''

URL=svn://X.X.X.X:XX/svn/project/default-pom/trunk

Does someone already face this problem? Thanks for all suggestions

Answer 1

I came across (and cracked :-) ) the same problem with Eclipse Kepler, Subclipse 1.6.x, and a Synology NAS. You may need to make sure that "svnserve" is in the /usr/bin of the SVN server.

There are two tests you can do to check this:

1) On the SVN client machine, type:

svn list --verbose svn+ssh://SVNServerLogin@SVNServerIP:pathOfSVNrepo

2) On the SVN server machine, type:

ls /usr/bin | grep svnserve

If you can't find the link in /usr/bin and the "svn" command returns an error (such as "sh: svnserve: not found"), I recommend the following command as root on the SVN server:

ln -s /opt/bin/svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve

(I found my svnserve in /opt/bin, but of course it might be in a different location in your case).

Sorry if I'm a couple of years late to answer your question!

Best.