Running the following command, I got the attached core file.
$ svk smerge -b
//sb/eng/streambase/trunk/compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen/:68409
-l
//sb/eng/streambase/personal/mcneill/perf/compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen/
compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen/
Auto-merging (68409, 69747)
/sb/eng/streambase/personal/mcneill/perf/compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen
to /call-queue-merge/compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen (base
//sb/eng/streambase/trunk/compiler/src/com/streambase/sb/appgen/:68409).
perl: subversion/libsvn_subr/path.c:114: svn_path_join: Assertion
`is_canonical(base, blen)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
Extra info:
fowles@spiceweasel:~$ svk -v
This is svk, version v2.0.2 (using Subversion bindings 1.4.3)
fowles@spiceweasel:~$ uname -a
Linux spiceweasel 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 08:27:05 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
fowles@spiceweasel:~$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at
http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.