Problem setting up capistrano deployment

I just set up a plan to host my projects externally so I am attempting
to learn deployment through capistrano.

I can currently ssh into [email protected] from my development box
without entering any password/passphrase (using an ssh agent). I have
also enabled this on the server itself so that it can check out
svn+ssh//myserver.com/var/… without entering anything.

Anyway, I cannot seem to set up to deploy

$ rake remote:exec ACTION=setup
loading configuration
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-1.1.0/lib/capistrano/recipes/standard.rb
loading configuration ./config/deploy.rb

  • executing task setup
  • executing “mkdir -p -m 775 /u/apps/rails_test/releases
    /u/apps/rails_test/shared/system &&\n mkdir -p -m 777
    /u/apps/rails_test/shared/log”
    servers: [“myserver.com”]
    *** [myserver.com] could not open channel
    command finished
    rake aborted!
    command “mkdir -p -m 775 /u/apps/rails_test/releases
    /u/apps/rails_test/shared/system &&\\n mkdir -p -m 777
    /u/apps/rails_test/shared/log” failed on myserver.com

My deploy.rb is:
set :application, “rails_test”
set :repository,
“svn+ssh://myserver.com/var/svn/rails-test/development/TestSite”

server = “myserver.com
role :user, “root”
role :web, server
role :app, server
role :db, server

Any ideas as to what I am doing incorrectly? Thanks in advance.