svn "no element found" error

Question

I am new to subversioning. I wanted to checkout already existing project in my system. But, when I did this in console:

svn checkout urlname

It asked me for password, but I gave it wrong password by mistake. When I tried it second timee, it didn't ask me for password but gave an error message:

unable to connect to a repository at URL
The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at    
line1: no element found (urlname)

Any idea about what I am doing wrong here?

Solution 1

Start Menu > Tortoise SVN > Settings to show the settings dialog box. From Saved Data dialog, click on 'clear' button beside Authentication Data to make Tortoise Subversion forget the saved password.

However, no element found error message suggests that you have wrong URL. You might want to recheck it.

Hope this helps!

Solution 2

Are you using TortoiseSVN or the SVN command line client?

If you're using the command line client, take a look at the .subversion\auth directory in your home directory. This is where all authentication information is stored. Most likely, the login information is stored in .subversion\auth\svn.simple.

Root around there to find the authentication information. Delete the file that has your authentication information stored in it. In fact, you can delete all the files in this directory. Subversion will simply recreate them once you try to log in again.

In TortoiseSVN, there's a place to clear our your Authentication information under settings.

Solution 3

Try specifying the correct password using:

svn --password (your password here) checkout urlname