“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

In my case, while using svn+ssh, the error stemmed from the fact that gforge users didn't have home directories. I added them manually and the problem went away.