Cannot update from SVN

mronkko

I have previously checked out the Zotero source from SVN. Now I tried updating, but the server returns an error

samurai:Zotero-source mronkko$ svn update
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to OPTIONS request for 'https://www.zotero.org/svn'
samurai:Zotero-source mronkko$ svn info
Path: .
URL: https://www.zotero.org/svn/extension/trunk
Repository Root: https://www.zotero.org/svn
Repository UUID: 45803e0f-1f0d-0410-b1ad-df509fcb3597
Revision: 5718
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: dstillman
Last Changed Rev: 5667
Last Changed Date: 2010-01-29 00:05:54 +0200 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010)

samurai:Zotero-source mronkko$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
compiled Nov 25 2009, 12:00:47

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- with Cyrus SASL authentication
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme

dstillman

Deleting the working copy and checking it out again should work.

mronkko

Ayn ideas on the cause? I will delete the working copy and check it out again.

dstillman

Not really. Certain write operations seem to occasionally cause SVN clients to try to access the repository root, which won't succeed in our configuration, even when they're updating from deeper directories. There are various threads on this error online, but "check out again" seems to be the standard fix.