TeamCity SVN agent-side checkout fails with error svn: E200030: There are unfinished transactions detected in folder

Question

After upgrading to TeamCity 2017.2 my SVN checkout began failing on my build agent with this error:

svn: E200030: There are unfinished transactions detected in '[... folder ...]'

The agent is running on Windows Server 2012 R2 and TeamCity Professional 2017.2 (build 50574)

Initial Googling and browsing on Stack Overflow didn't find an answer yet.

Colour

Answer 1

After further Googling I found this bug on the TeamCity YouTrack:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-49325 specifically this comment https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/TW-49325#comment=27-2472122

I had TortoiseSVN 1.9 installed on the build agent.

Disabling the Tortoise icon overlays for my build agent folders under Settings -> Icon Overlays -> Exclude Paths allowed my checkout to continue successfully again.

Looks like the problem is caused by a TortoiseSVN client when it monitors SVN folders,

Colour

I logged issues.tmatesoft.com/issue/SVNKIT-717 on the SVNKit issue tracker to try find out if it is a SVNKit bug. Also groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tortoisesvn/CH3R1LmZ1gw on the Tortoise user Google group – Colour

As an update, SVNKit and Jetbrains have both released patches to deal with the issue. I will confirm whether the issue is fixed when I next upgrade TeamCity. – Colour

I had the same issue with TeamCity Professional 8.1.1 (build 29939) and this solution worked like a charm! – Bucksaw