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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:16:53+00:00

I’m deploying to a Debian server with Capistrano which fails due to locked a

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I’m deploying to a Debian server with Capistrano which fails due to locked a working copy. I narrowed it down to this:

svn checkout http://myrepo.net/mysite/tags/1.0 /var/www/mysite/releases/1234

So if I run:

cap invoke COMMAND='svn checkout http://myrepo.net/mysite/tags/1.0 /var/www/mysite/releases/1234'

I get an error:

svn: Working copy '/var/www/mysite/releases/1' locked

Clean up makes no difference. The same command runs fine from the server. When I list the files in 1234/ I can see all the .svn and working copy files.

Can someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this? How do I tell if the working copy is really locked? svn status shows nothing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    just had the same problem, spent about an hour trying to figure out what’s happening.

    i noticed the reason while looking at this string (the one before entering the password)

      * executing "svn checkout -q  -r422 svn://192.168.1.100/ /var/www/myhost/releases/20091102144836 && (echo 422 > /var/www/myhost/releases/20091102144836/REVISION)"
    servers: ["192.168.1.200", "myhost"]
Password:

    basically i ordered capistrano to deploy twice to same server(myhost=192.168.1.200) in my capistrano deploy file) and it was locking itself

    hope it helps someone.

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