ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /projects/JetHeat/2ndGenControls/trac/../svn-groups [line 9]: '= rw\n'

[stracht@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on , Trac issued an internal error.

I am trying to use trac on projectlocker and I keep getting this error no matter what I try to do.

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0

System Information

Trac	0.11.7
Python	2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 2 2009, 13:08:35) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)]
setuptools	0.6c11
SQLite	3.6.19
pysqlite	2.5.5
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_wsgi	3.3 (WSGIProcessGroup tracdaemon WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL})
Pygments	1.1.1
Subversion	1.7.2 (r1207936)
RPC	1.0.6
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 450, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 176, in dispatch
    chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 296, in _pre_process_request
    chosen_handler = filter_.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 86, in pre_process_request
    self.get_repository(req.authname).sync()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 157, in get_repository
    repos = self._connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, authname)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 296, in get_repository
    authname)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_authz.py", line 47, in SubversionAuthorizer
    return RealSubversionAuthorizer(repos, authname, module_name, authz_file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Trac-0.11.7-py2.5.egg/trac/versioncontrol/svn_authz.py", line 88, in __init__
    self.conf_authz.read(cfg_file)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 490, in _read
    raise e
ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /projects/JetHeat/2ndGenControls/trac/../svn-groups
	[line  9]: '= rw\n'

[Remy Blank]

AFAICT, line 9 of your svn-groups file is not a valid SVN authz file:

= rw

Making this line valid will probably go a long way to fixing the issue. Which is an InstallationIssue.