“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 also had this problem after I have set up ssh on my linux server. The problem for me was that I have created the key with puttyGen. The public key file first had to be converted with puttyGen from .ppk file format. After that everything worked like a charm.