# Unable to freeze:edge **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847 "2006-08-08T11:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/1 "2006-08-08T11:04:33Z")
Hi, Whenever I try to rake rails:freeze:edge it fails. Here is the trace: (in D:/work/radrails/rdepot) \*\* Invoke rails:freeze:edge (first\_time) \*\* Execute rails:freeze:edge d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/core\_ext/k ernel/agnostics.rb:7: [BUG] rb\_sys\_fail(svn --version) - errno == 0 ruby 1.8.4 (2006-04-14) [i386-mswin32] abnormal program termination This is on Windows 2000. Any ideas? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/2 "2006-08-08T11:11:14Z")
Hi James, have you got the svn command line client installed? Search for subversion on google and you will find it. Cheers, Jan ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/3 "2006-08-08T11:25:44Z")
Hi Jan, I have installed TortoiseSVN but that has not made a difference. Thanks James Jan P. wrote: > Hi James, > > have you got the svn command line client installed? Search for > subversion on > google and you will find it. > > Cheers, > Jan ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/4 "2006-08-08T11:52:30Z")
Thanks, Jan - I have now installed the svn binaries as well. svn help gives the usage info correctly. However my problem has changed - trace below: (in D:/work/radrails/rdepot) \*\* Invoke rails:freeze:edge (first\_time) \*\* Execute rails:freeze:edge rm -rf vendor/rails mkdir -p vendor/rails svn: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/svn/rails’ svn: PROPFIND of ‘/svn/rails’: Could not read status line: connection was closed by server. ([http://dev.rubyonrails.org](http://dev.rubyonrails.org)) rake aborted! undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/tasks/framework.rake:56 d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute’ d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in `execute' d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:357:in `invoke’ d:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in `invoke’ d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run' d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run’ d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7 d:/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25 James ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/5 "2006-08-08T11:38:18Z")
Yes, this is because you don’t need tortoise but the command line libraries: [http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91](http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91) What does ‘svn help’ on the command line give you. Unless there’s something happing but ‘command unknown’ you’ve got installation and or path problems. Cheers, Jan ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/6 "2006-08-08T12:05:21Z")
Hi James, the configuration is working fine for me. I’ve just tried it over my connection and all went well. Your problem seems to be that on your connection you don’t even come that far to read the svn-properties. The connection seems to get closed immediatly. You need to find out why this is happening. It might be only a temporary problem by [dev.rubyonrails.org](http://dev.rubyonrails.org) but if it persists you need to do some research… Are you able to check out rails from the command line without using the rake tasks by using ‘svn co [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk)’?[http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk) Cheers, Jan ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/7 "2006-08-08T12:15:00Z")
Hi Jan, If I try to checkout from the command line I get: svn: PROPFIND request failed on ‘/svn/rails/trunk’ svn: PROPFIND of ‘/svn/rails/trunk’: Could not read status line: connection was closed by server. ([http://dev.rubyonrails.org](http://dev.rubyonrails.org)) As you say, it seems to be an issue with the connection. If anyone has any ideas, I’d be interested to hear them. Thanks for your help. James ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/8 "2006-08-08T12:20:22Z")
On 8/8/06, Jan P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > some research… > > > svn: PROPFIND of ‘/svn/rails’: Could not read status line: connection > > d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run’ > > Rails mailing list > > I had a similar problem to this a while ago. I can’t be sure if it’s the > same problem because it was a good while ago! I was behind a proxy and had to set an env variable. I can’t remember exactly which one now, I don’t have my computer at work. A google or even rake rails:freeze:edge --help may give you a clue. If this isn’t the issue, one other thing to try is make sure there are no spaces in your path to the rails project. If it’s neither of these two, I can’t help. Sorri ---
**Author:** ![James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@James\_Silberbauer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Silberbauer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unable-to-freeze-edge/101847/9 "2006-08-08T13:21:27Z")
Thanks Daniel 1. I don’t connect with a proxy. (I expect the env variable you mention is http\_proxy) 2. There are no spaces in my project’s path. Could my router or ISP be interfering somehow? James