Talk about weird errors:
$ svn up
svn: generic failure
Le what?!
Apparently, this can have multiple causes:
- Hostname of your local machine not being resolved (try adding to hosts file of the SVN server)
- Firewall issue(s)
- Negotiation issues (try changing from “file://” to “svn+ssh://”)
The first issue (your computer does not know who it is) is actually a problem. Diagnose this by checking with “sudo echo hello world” — does sudo report “cannot resolve host ….”? If so, then the below will probably solve it:
echo "127.0.0.1\t`hostname`" >> /etc/hosts