“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

Check your firewall settings. I had ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) installed on my server which blocked the ssh+svn port 2222. I allowed the ports and was able to perform an update.