[webmin-l] svn: Can't find a temporary directory - Looks like a Quota problem.

[Russ F. <ru...@to...>]

I like Webmin - what a great product! Thanks to all who contribute to  
it!

On a virtualmin virtual server I have an svn service running in svn 
+ssh mode.
When I - the admin for the server -  run the svn client against that  
service, I have no problems.
But others are getting:
     svn: Can't find a temporary directory
Some research on that, and perusing the SVN source, shows me that  
several likely tmp locations are tested and are not writeable.
This smells like quota!
So I logged in as one of those normal users and did this:
     % date > /tmp/testsvn
date: write error: Disk quota exceeded
     date: write error: Disk quota exceeded

So it's definitely quota!

Trouble is, the quota was 100MB, and only 44MB were used.
I've increased quota for the server by 100MB and still no joy. I've  
run the quota checks, and I've validated all virtual servers. I've  
turned off quota on the VS. I've clicked "Recheck and refresh  
configuration". Related to quota it said:
User quotas are enabled for home and email directories, but group  
quotas are not. Total virtual server quotas will not be enforced.
Between each test, I've logged out from the normal user account and  
logged in again.
My testing consists of running
   % date > /tmp/testsvn
since this is clearly not an svn problem.

I've exhausted the easy tests. I'd like some suggestions on what to  
try next, either from Jamie or other users.

--r

 From Webmin Start page
Operating system
CentOS Linux 4.2
Webmin version
1.320

 From Edit Server page
Total server quota
200MB
Server administrator's quota
100MB
Disk space used (including sub-servers)
44 MB (752 kB by Unix user, 44 MB by mail / FTP users)
Space used by databases
8192 bytes (8192 bytes in this server, 0 bytes in sub-servers)


Disk Usage page
Allowed disk quota
200 MB
Disk space used
44 MB
Size of databases
8192 bytes
Percent of quota used
21%

Disk Quotas
/  | New Linux Native Filesystem | User quotas active


Russ Ferriday - Topia Systems - Open Source content management with  
Plone and Zope
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