"bzr push" failing with SubversionException: OPTIONS request failed

[Eric P. Mangold]

I've used the svn plugin in exactly this fashion before on the same server and with the same repository without any issues. It's been several weeks since I last pushed, and now it always fails with the following exception:

% bzr push
Using saved location: svn+https://svn2.hosted-projects.com/Phoenix/PCP/branches/fxcm-3
bzr: ERROR: libsvn._core.SubversionException: ("OPTIONS request failed on '/Phoenix/PCP/branches'", 175002)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 776, in run
    make_directory, to_transport, redirected)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 1664, in do_catching_redirections
    return action(transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 768, in make_directory
    transport.mkdir('.')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/errors.py", line 119, in convert
    raise convert_error(e)
SubversionException: ("OPTIONS request failed on '/Phoenix/PCP/branches'", 175002)

bzr 1.3.1 on python 2.5.2.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'push']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.3.0]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  svn /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn [0.4.9]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.

[Eric P. Mangold (teratorn)]

I just tried this push again (right now) and it worked! I haven't touched my repo since reporting this bug, and I haven't touched my installed copy of bzr either.

The server I'm pushing to is not under my control, and it seems likely that this bug is related to some server-side behavior difference between now when I tried to push these revisions initially. I don't have any idea what that could be, however.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Thanks for the update, I'm closing this bug for now. Please reopen if it persists.

[Eric P. Mangold (teratorn)]

Well... I would say it's still a bug, in the sense that if this behavior is indeed caused by a server-side malfunction then bzr ought to report that information in a more friendly way, as opposed to a stacktrace. Feel free to close it again if you disagree.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I agree :-) I changed bzr-svn earlier this evening to not show a traceback, but just a single line, e.g.:

bzr: ERROR: OPTIONS request failed on '/Phoenix/PCP/branches'

I'm afraid there's not much more I can do - the error message comes from the Subversion library that bzr-svn uses, and it's error messages are unfortunately very cryptic :-(

Revision 1680 in the 0.4 branch.