Svn: Can't open file '/mnt/svn/dns/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied Error (SVN)

From ben.goodacre.name/tech

Symptom

When attempting to commit to a SVN repo with svnserve the following error can occur:

svn: Can't open file 'db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

Cause

The txn-current-lock file has the incorrect permissions - usually only readable by root, or whatever user to ran the svnadmin create command with.

Resolution

txn-current-lock probably needs to be writeable by user svn but if you use xinet.d the user can be checked by examining /etc/xinet.d/svn. Paths may vary depending on your package/distro.

• To correct permissions if the user is svn

# chown root:svn db/txn-current-lock
# chmod g+rw db/txn-current-lock