How To Commit Translations via SVN

Sat May 24 00:28:48 BST 2025

Hello,

Thanks for the advice.

The command does not work for me.

This is the output:

$ svn co svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-support/
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-support'
svn: E210002: To better debug SSH connection problems, remove the -q option from 'ssh' in the [tunnels] section of your Subversion configuration file.
svn: E210002: Network connection closed unexpectedly

The only Subversion configuration file on my computer is /etc/subversion/config.
It does not contain the -q option:

$ cat /etc/subversion/config | grep q
### arguments, using standard shell quoting for arguments with

I do have the key uploaded, at KDE Identity and at ivent.kde.org.

I followed the instructions at https://invent.kde.org/help/user/ssh.md to configure the
SSH settings at invent.kde.org.
The 'gitlab.com' given in those instructions was not recognised, which led me to use
'local-kde.org' from the instructions here: https://invent.kde.org/help/instance_configuration

This is the output from following step 2 of 'Verify that you can connect' from the instructions
at https://invent.kde.org/help/user/ssh.md (with v options to get debugging information):

$ ssh -vvvT kbiid at gitlab.local-kde.org
OpenSSH_9.8p1, OpenSSL 3.1.7 3 Sep 2024
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/muwawa/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 53: Including file /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf depth 0
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf
debug2: checking match for 'final all' host gitlab.local-kde.org originally gitlab.local-kde.org
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf line 3: not matched 'final'
debug2: match not found
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf line 5: Including file /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config depth 1 (parse only)
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
debug3: kex names ok: [curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512]
debug1: configuration requests final Match pass
debug1: re-parsing configuration
debug1: Reading configuration data /home/muwawa/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 53: Including file /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf depth 0
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf
debug2: checking match for 'final all' host gitlab.local-kde.org originally gitlab.local-kde.org
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf line 3: matched 'final'
debug2: match found
debug3: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/50-pclinuxos.conf line 5: Including file /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config depth 1
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
debug3: kex names ok: [curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512]
debug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts'
debug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts2'
debug2: resolving "gitlab.local-kde.org" port 22
debug3: resolve_host: lookup gitlab.local-kde.org:22
debug3: channel_clear_timeouts: clearing
debug3: ssh_connect_direct: entering
debug1: Connecting to gitlab.local-kde.org [2a01:4f8:221:1dd0::2] port 22.
debug3: set_sock_tos: set socket 3 IPV6_TCLASS 0x48
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519 type 3
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_xmss type -1
debug1: identity file /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.8
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.13
debug1: compat_banner: match: OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3ubuntu0.13 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Authenticating to gitlab.local-kde.org:22 as 'kbiid'
debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ED25519 in file /home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug3: load_hostkeys_file: loaded 1 keys from gitlab.local-kde.org
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug3: order_hostkeyalgs: have matching best-preference key type ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com, using HostkeyAlgorithms verbatim
debug3: send packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug3: receive packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug2: local client KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,ext-info-c,kex-strict-c-v00 at openssh.com
debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01 at openssh.com,sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ssh-ed25519 at openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256
debug2: ciphers ctos: aes256-gcm at openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-ctr
debug2: ciphers stoc: aes256-gcm at openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-ctr
debug2: MACs ctos: hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1,umac-128 at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512
debug2: MACs stoc: hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1,umac-128 at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib at openssh.com,zlib
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib at openssh.com,zlib
debug2: languages ctos:
debug2: languages stoc:
debug2: first_kex_follows 0
debug2: reserved 0
debug2: peer server KEXINIT proposal
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,kex-strict-s-v00 at openssh.com
debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-ed25519,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr
debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes128-ctr
debug2: MACs ctos: hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,umac-128 at openssh.com
debug2: MACs stoc: hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,umac-128 at openssh.com
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib at openssh.com
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib at openssh.com
debug2: languages ctos:
debug2: languages stoc:
debug2: first_kex_follows 0
debug2: reserved 0
debug3: kex_choose_conf: will use strict KEX ordering
debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org
debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519
debug1: kex: server->client cipher: aes256-gcm at openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug1: kex: client->server cipher: aes256-gcm at openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none
debug3: send packet: type 30
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
debug3: receive packet: type 31
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY received
debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:zHdK2R/S6s5Oj71N0s8LHWCXXsUt+DCztd+GjzW9KlU
debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ED25519 in file /home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug3: load_hostkeys_file: loaded 1 keys from gitlab.local-kde.org
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory
debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory
debug1: Host 'gitlab.local-kde.org' is known and matches the ED25519 host key.
debug1: Found key in /home/muwawa/.ssh/known_hosts:2
debug3: send packet: type 21
debug1: ssh_packet_send2_wrapped: resetting send seqnr 3
debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: rekey out after 4294967296 blocks
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug3: receive packet: type 21
debug1: ssh_packet_read_poll2: resetting read seqnr 3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: rekey in after 4294967296 blocks
debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256 at libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,ext-info-c,kex-strict-c-v00 at openssh.com
debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01 at openssh.com,sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01 at openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01 at openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ssh-ed25519 at openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256
debug2: ciphers ctos: aes256-gcm at openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-ctr
debug2: ciphers stoc: aes256-gcm at openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes128-ctr
debug2: MACs ctos: hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1,umac-128 at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512
debug2: MACs stoc: hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha1,umac-128 at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512
debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib at openssh.com,zlib
debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib at openssh.com,zlib
debug2: languages ctos:
debug2: languages stoc:
debug2: first_kex_follows 0
debug2: reserved 0
debug3: send packet: type 5
debug3: receive packet: type 7
debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received
debug3: kex_input_ext_info: extension server-sig-algs
debug1: kex_ext_info_client_parse: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519 at openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at openssh.com,webauthn-sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 at openssh.com>
debug3: kex_input_ext_info: extension publickey-hostbound at openssh.com
debug1: kex_ext_info_check_ver: publickey-hostbound at openssh.com=<0>
debug3: receive packet: type 6
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug3: ssh_get_authentication_socket_path: path '/tmp//ssh-XXXXXXKwuYr5/agent.4976'
debug1: get_agent_identities: bound agent to hostkey
debug1: get_agent_identities: ssh_fetch_identitylist: agent contains no identities
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:GXHfwHUGCjXbhdtvSwRkXDQTMK/9Hm9ODIReSviorv4
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk
debug1: Will attempt key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_xmss
debug2: pubkey_prepare: done
debug1: Trying private key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_rsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa
debug3: no such identity: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk
debug3: no such identity: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk: No such file or directory
debug1: Offering public key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519 SHA256:GXHfwHUGCjXbhdtvSwRkXDQTMK/9Hm9ODIReSviorv4
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk
debug3: no such identity: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk: No such file or directory
debug1: Trying private key: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_xmss
debug3: no such identity: /home/muwawa/.ssh/id_xmss: No such file or directory
debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
kbiid at gitlab.local-kde.org: Permission denied (publickey).

Regards,

Kizito Birabwa
KDE Luganda Team

On Friday, 23 May 2025 at 22:25:13 BST, Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org> wrote: 

Hi!

All this shouldn’t be necessary. You shouldn’t have to edit the 
~/.ssh/config at all, and you shouldn’t use a password. And 
local-kde.org isn’t involved (I have never heard of this server).

Does simply running this command work:

svn co svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-support/

?

Then everything should be OK. If not, have you uploaded your (public!) 
SSH key at https://invent.kde.org/-/user_settings/ssh_keys?

Karl

Kizito Birabwa skreiv 23.05.2025 23:06:
> Hello again,
>
> Additional information:
>
> I already have ssh settings for committing to Qt Localization's Gerrit code review and they work - they have been working since last year and still do.
>
> I am attempting to use the same key for Qt Localization and for KDE.
>
> In my ~/.ssh/config file I have added settings for KDE's GitLab in addition to the Qt ones:
> Host local-kde.org
> Port 443
> User same as my KDE Identity user name
> PreferredAuthentications publickey
> IdentityFile ~/.ssh/.ssh/id_ed25519
>
> I have also added the svn keys to the known_hosts file. It now has these as well as the gitlab.local-kde.org key.
>
> My ~/.ssh directory contains just one private key and its public counterpart and the files config and known_hosts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kizito Birabwa
> KDE Luganda Team
>
>
> On Friday, 23 May 2025 at 17:51:41 BST, Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi;
>
>  From https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion/2020_Changes,
> can you check if you have added your SSH keys on KDE's GitLab at
> invent.kde.org ?
> Then, it should work without having to provide your account when
> checkouting or committing.
>
> Ben added you in the list in
> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-management/-/commit/a309e8e1eaaf121820365c6cb93a767fd5913dea
> (kbiid account).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Johnny
>
> Le ven. 23 mai 2025 à 18:39, Kizito Birabwa <kbirabwa at yahoo.co.uk> a écrit :
>> Yes
>>
>>    Regards,
>>
>>    Kizito Birabwa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 23 May 2025 at 13:38:16 BST, Josep M. Ferrer <txemaq at saragata.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> El 21/5/25 a les 2:51, Kizito Birabwa ha escrit:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am currently the Luganda translation team. I have been given a developer account and so should be able to commit work into the svn repositories.
>>>
>>> I would like some help for I have lost my way at some point.
>>>
>>> I have the account with KDE Identity username and password (represented here as 'mykdeidentity' and 'mykdepasswd').
>>> The command:
>>>
>>> svn checkout --username mykdeidenty --password mykdepasswd svn://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf6/lg/messages messages
>>> appeaed to work and created a working copy
>>>
>>> However, when I tried to commit the changes that I had made, the command:
>>>
>>> svn commit --username mykdeidenty  --password mykdepasswd
>>>
>>> failed after I had completed the commit message in the editor that opened. The failure message was:
>>>
>>> svn: E170001: Commit failed (details follow):
>>> svn: E170001: Authorization failed
>>> svn: E170001: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
>>> svn: E170001:    '/home/muwawa/nls/Ebikyusibwa/kde6/po/lg/messages/svn-commit.1.tmp'
>> It seems an issue with with your SVN account.
>>
>> When you got your developer account, did you ask explicitly for an SVN
>> account?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Josep M. Ferrer
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have searched for guidance online but have become thouroughly confused. The steps up to getting a developer account with the right permissions are clear. Also there is a lot showing the commands that have failed for me. However the bits in the middle, between getting the account and executing those commands are what I am struggling to find.
>>>
>>> I hope someone can help and point me to some sort of step-by-step guide on how to set up committing to the kde svn.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Kizito Birabwa
>>> KDE Luganda Team

>>

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer