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Craig Otis
Asked: 2011-11-15 07:47:34 +0800 CST

Using apt-get fails due to improperly configured dav_svn.conf file?

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We're working on updating one of our internal development servers (running an older version of Ubuntu, 8 or 9 I'd guess), and are encountering errors when upgrading/installing packages using apt-get. Here's the console output of an attempt to install zip:

me@server:~$ sudo apt-get install zip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
zip is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libapache2-svn (1.5.1dfsg1-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Considering dependency dav for dav_svn:
Module dav already enabled
ERROR: Config file dav_svn.conf not properly enabled: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf is a real file, not touching it
dpkg: error processing libapache2-svn (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-svn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
me@server:~$

The root issue appears to be:

ERROR: Config file dav_svn.conf not properly enabled: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf is a real file, not touching it

The permissions of that file:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1099 2009-09-08 16:32 /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

Google didn't turn up much, and I'm not sure how to 'properly enable' that configuration file. (Or why that would prevent apt-get from functioning?)

ubuntu apache-2.2 unix apt dpkg

3 Answers

  1. In the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled, you should only have links to /etc/apache2/mods-available. So, move your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf to /etc/apache2/mods-available, do a a2enmod dav_svn, then restart your installation process.

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  2. Best Answer

    Turns out files shouldn't be stored in mods-enabled, they should rather be stored in mods-available. A symlink should then be created in mods-enabled pointing to the file stored in mods-available.

    In closing:

    First remove the original:

    mv /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf /etc/apache2/mods-available/

    Then create the symbolic link:

    ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf

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  3. My first guess is that it may perhaps be trying to restart apache after installing libapache2-svn and when it tries to restart it can't because of a misconfiguration in dav_svn.conf. Try disabling it with the a2dismod command. Or just move dav_svn.conf out of the mods-enabled folder.

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