“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

One other reason for getting this "svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly" error which I came across was that the /var was full , which caused for svn in not being able to write anything to disk. so maybe first check your disk space (du -m) before proceeding with the above steps ?