How to avoid “Killed by signal 15″ error when using Netbeans with Subversion

At least if you use Netbeans on the Mac with a reasonably current version of Subversion (e.g. installed through MacPorts), you may have faced the following situation: After each action that involves a ssh link, you get a Dialog box stating “Killed by signal 15″. Here is an easy way to solve this:

  • Open Preferences and navigate to the “Miscellaneous” tab.
  • Inside this tab, open the “Versioning” sub-tab
  • Lastly, click on “Subversion” in the list on the left side.
  • You should see the following on your screen now:

Screenshot of the preferences of Netbeans 6.8

  • Now, hit the “Manage Connection Settings” button. I’d have highlighted the button in the screenshot if I knew how to draw a simple circle in Photoshop ;-)
  • The following dialog box looks like this:

Netbeans 6.8 Subversion connection settings

  • As you can see, I inserted “ssh -q” in the field “Tunnel Command”. Do the same

The annoying dialog box should be gone for good now.

Comments 2

  1. Riggy wrote:

    I had this problem for a long time. Because of it I was stuck with older version of svn… But now everything works perfectly! Thanks!

    Posted 01 Mar 2010 at 17:05
  2. Brian wrote:

    Thanks, fixed it! This was super annoying.

    Posted 08 Mar 2010 at 09:35

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