So there are several similar questions on serverfault ... but the solution is still eluding me.

I am running subversion on ubuntu 9.04 .. through apache2.2.x ....

i get

Commit failed (details follow): Can't make directory '/home/kirb/svn/dav/activities.d': Permission denied

when i attempt to commit.

It is deffinitely a permissions issue... but how to fix it is still eluding me.

my repository is in /home/kirb/svn.

http://serverfault.com/questions/61573/svn-commit-error says to chgrp .. but i dont seem to be able to.

all the apache dav stuff seems to be working though. I can access my repository just fine through a browser.

apologies if i am missing something simple here.

Thanks in advance, Kirb

additional edit: i am not able to sudo chgrp on the directory at all

sudo chgrp -R www-data /home/kirb/svn; chmod -R g+rwx /home/kirb/svn [sudo] password for kirb: chmod: changing permissions of/home/kirb/svn': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of /home/kirb/svn/format': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of/home/kirb/svn/conf': Operation not permitted chmod: cannot read directory /home/kirb/svn/conf': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of/home/kirb/svn/locks': Operation not permitted chmod: cannot read directory /home/kirb/svn/locks': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of/home/kirb/svn/db': Operation not permitted chmod: cannot read directory /home/kirb/svn/db': Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of/home/kirb/svn/README.txt': Operation not permitted chmod: changing permissions of /home/kirb/svn/hooks': Operation not permitted chmod: cannot read directory/home/kirb/svn/hooks': Permission denied`