SVN Failed to check out E175002: CRLF expected at end of chunk: -1/-1

Issue

When running your builds, the SVN checkout step fails and you can see some errors like the one shown below in the console output for the build.

ERROR: Failed to check out https://checkout_repo
 org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: E175002: CRLF expected at end of chunk: -1/-1▼

Environment

Workaround

This is a known issue that has been reported:

JENKINS-44307

This issue might happen in case that you experience some network problems in the middle of some operation, in that case, the connection is broken and the XML parser fails to parse an incomplete document.

The workaround is to restart the instance.

Tested version

Subversion 2.13.1
CloudBees CI (CloudBees Core) on traditional platforms - Client controller 2.249.2.3

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