svn cleanup and lockup throw the error "operation not supported"

I am not sure why my svn is behaving so weird.

This is how I have my setup.

There is a svn repository on a machine called shivani_machine and there are two accounts on this machine, shivani and papu

Shivani is a user that checksout of this repository on shivani_machine itself and papu on another computer shivani_laptop

I added a bunch of f开发者_StackOverflow社区iles from shivani_laptop using username papu I then attempted to update it from shivani_machine from username shivani

shivani@shivani_machine:/research$ svn update
svn: Can't open file '.svn/lock' operation not supported
shivani@shivani_machine:/research$ svn update
svn: Can't open file '.svn/lock' operation not supported

I even tried svn status and it does show that there is a lock in one of directories in research/mycode... but when I do a "ls" on that folder, I do not see a .svn/lock file in that directory.

You have to do a ls -a to see directories starting with a . (dot).

Try running svn cleanup on your working directory before proceeding.