“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

I suspect Joel and Andy have it right.

You can use the ssh verbose flag to help figure out these kind of problems.

export SVN_SSH="ssh -v "
svn checkout svn+ssh://serveradmin%foo/blah blah blah