“Network connection closed unexpectedly” upon svn checkout

Question

When I attempt to checkout:

svn checkout svn+ssh://serveradmin%foo@foo.com/home/87292/data/svn/repository/trunk .

I get this (unhelpful) er

Answer 1

I had this same error, but for committing a revision. Clearing out .ssh/known_hosts fixed the problem because the SSH keys went stale.