“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

Make sure you did not have a spurious colon in your svn url

It should NOT be:

    user@host.com:/path/to/repo 
                 ^
                 spurious colon should be removed  

but should be:

    user@host.com/path/to/repo

Answer 2

OK. Here’s how I fixed this (on Mac OS X, but fix should work on any client)

This particular issue arises when you are using a non-standard port (let’s say 12001 for sake of example) for your SSH server.

Apparently the SVN client experiences syntax errors when given a port address on a command line like this one:

svn list svn+ssh://username@domainname.com:12001/home/username/svn/myproject

So, to fix this, you need to create a client-side config file for SSH like this:

cd ~
cd .ssh
vi config (create a config file like the one that follows)
:w
:q

Config file located in ~/.ssh/config:

Host domain.com
User username
Port 12001

Then, issue your svn+ssh command WITHOUT the port like this:

svn list svn+ssh://username@domain.com/home/username/svn/myproject

That’s it!

Hope that helps. Rick

Answer 3

If you're using Putty, it saves your login credentials thus might make tortoise give the following error when you try to checkout: Connection closed unexpectedly. If this occurs open up putty and click on default settings so that the Host Name is loaded. Clear the host name and save. This worked for me...