Internal error with trac 0.10.4 + RHEL 5 (python 2.4.3 + Apache 2.2.3 + svn 1.4.4)

[ptiwari@…]

I am trying to install Trac 0.10.4 on RHEL 5 and am getting an Internal error when I try to access the trac installation using apache (​http://localhost/trac). When I run tracd on port 8000, it seems to work fine. The detailed error is given below.

Oops… Trac detected an internal error:

If you think this really should work and you can reproduce it, you should consider reporting this problem to the Trac team.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 406, in dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 191, in dispatch
    chosen_handler = self._pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 263, in _pre_process_request
    chosen_handler = f.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 73, in pre_process_request
    self.get_repository(req.authname).sync()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 104, in get_repository
    repos = self._connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, authname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 234, in get_repository
    repos = SubversionRepository(dir, None, self.log)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py", line 267, in __init__
    self.repos = repos.svn_repos_open(self.path, self.pool())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libsvn/repos.py", line 47, in svn_repos_open
    return apply(_repos.svn_repos_open, args)
SubversionException: ("Can't open file '/root/subversion/repos/format': Permission denied", 13)

[ThurnerRupert]

what about Can't open file '/root/subversion/repos/format': Permission denied", 13??

[Emmanuel Blot]

You forgot to give Apache the permissions to read/write from/to the SVN repository. This is an installation issue, if you can't get rid of this error and want some help from other Trac users, please post to the MailingList.