When working with SVN repositories and doing C-x v l on a file I get the following: Working file: /home/ams/Makefile svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn+ssh://carbonium/svn/com/ams/trunk/Makefile' 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 Commiting and other operations fail as well, but only if one uses the svn+ssh:// protocol. In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.4 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.6) of 2016-07-24 built on scandium Repository revision: 098d29af10a869e65a36804579f16edc49aabcfa System Description: Arch Linux Recent messages: Loading /home/ams-work/loaddefs.el (source)...done Loading /home/ams-work/private/rcirc.el (source)...done Loading /home/ams-work/private/pivotal-tracker.el (source)...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [2 times] Making completion list... Source file ‘/home/ams/emacs/lisp/gnus/message.el’ newer than byte-compiled file Source file ‘/home/ams/emacs/lisp/gnus/mm-decode.el’ newer than byte-compiled file Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 LIBSYSTEMD Important settings: value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: gpm-mouse-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: ~/misc hides /home/ams/emacs/lisp/misc ~/loaddefs hides /home/ams/emacs/lisp/loaddefs Features: (shadow mailalias emacsbug message puny seq byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader t-mouse term/linux rcirc ring mail-queue cl-macs sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils vc-dispatcher vc-svn time-date autoload radix-tree lisp-mnt cl gv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib mule-util disp-table tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 101229 7825) (symbols 48 21238 0) (miscs 40 60 175) (strings 32 19392 5315) (string-bytes 1 603326) (vectors 16 12084) (vector-slots 8 411119 1578) (floats 8 184 255) (intervals 56 211 100) (buffers 976 13) (heap 1024 35908 869))