SVN crashes on svn:// login with: svn assert failure

[Remco Brenninkmeijer]

When I try to connect to even an empty repo through svn protocol it crashes with a coredump.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 beta1

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: subversion 1.8.8-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-14.34-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: svn: /build/buildd/subversion-1.8.8/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:1315: svn_uri_basename: Assertion `svn_uri_is_canonical(uri, ((void *)0))' failed.
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 4 14:45:49 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/svn
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-08 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140208)
ProcCmdline: svn co svn://maxe:backupsystem
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: subversion
StacktraceTop:
 __assert_fail_base (fmt=0x7f09dfd554b8 "%s%s%s:%u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed.\n%n", assertion=assertion@entry=0x7f09e043f550 "svn_uri_is_canonical(uri, ((void *)0))", file=file@entry=0x7f09e043f328 "/build/buildd/subversion-1.8.8/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c", line=line@entry=1315, function=function@entry=0x7f09e043fa90 "svn_uri_basename") at assert.c:92
 __GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7f09e043f550 "svn_uri_is_canonical(uri, ((void *)0))", file=0x7f09e043f328 "/build/buildd/subversion-1.8.8/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c", line=1315, function=0x7f09e043fa90 "svn_uri_basename") at assert.c:101
 svn_uri_basename () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_subr-1.so.1
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: svn assert failure: svn: /build/buildd/subversion-1.8.8/subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:1315: svn_uri_basename: Assertion `svn_uri_is_canonical(uri, ((void *)0))' failed.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Remco Brenninkmeijer (requist1)]

It was a long time ago but if I remember correct it appeared to be a server problem which causes the dump at the client side.

So the message is being given if the repository can not be reached. (Same thing will happen if you try to checkout from a server which does not run subversion).

<b>Definitely a user-error, but especially considering the likeliness of this error it should rather result in a nice user message instead of this core dump. </b>