On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Mikael Lindsten
<mikli485_at_student.liu.se> wrote:
> Hm, I'm not sure. I'm not very familiar with creating services on Windows
> (as you can tell).
>
> As I stated in my question, I created the service with the following
> command:
>
> sc create svn binpath= "\"C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe\"
> --service --root U:\svn_repository" displayname= "Subversion Server" depend=
> Tcpip
>
>
> No other configuration has been made to the service... do I need to set
> somehow what user account should run the service?
See my second reply. You shouldn't be hosting your repository on a
mapped drive in the first place. Depending upon the how the protocol
is implemented, it may work fine, or it may lead to repository
corruption. And you'll always have questions of permissions. Not to
mention degraded performance.
> 2008/5/16, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Mikael Lindsten
>>
>> <mikli485_at_student.liu.se> wrote:
>>
>> > (Sorry, reply to all it is!)
>> >
>> >
>> > Hmm... if this is the problem, then I don't understand is why it all
>> > works
>> > fine when i start svnserve in daemon-mode (i.e. not as a service)!
>>
>>
>> Because your user account is starting it from an interactive shell,
>> and you have that drive mapped then.
>>
>>
>> > And I'm trying to start the service manually, thus I am logged in and
>> > the
>> > drive is mapped (= no dependency issue). How come the svnserve service
>> > has
>> > no knowledge of my network drive when svnserve daemon does?
>>
>>
>> Is the service configured to run under a different account?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 2008/5/15, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Please be sure to Reply To All so that the list gets your replies.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Mikael Lindsten
>> >>
>> >> <mikli485_at_student.liu.se> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi Andy,
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes, the U drive is mapped to my home folder on an intranet server.
>> >> > The
>> >> > intranet btw is extremely slow!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> There's your problem right there. Drive mappings are done by user
>> >> account, and mapped when the user account logs in. So the svnserve
>> >> service has no knowledge of this U drive at all.
>> >>
>> >> Always host your repository on a path which appears as local to the
>> >> server where your service is running.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > I first thought that the slow intranet was the cause of the problem,
>> >> > but
>> >> > that would not explain why I get the error after just a second or two
>> >> > (I
>> >> > would expect it to try for 30 seconds before giving up)...
>> >> >
>> >> > / Mikael
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > 2008/5/15, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Mikael Lindsten
>> >> >> <mikli485_at_student.liu.se> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I'm facing a
>> >> >> > problem
>> >> >> > when following the guide provide by svn.collab.net for setting up
>> >> >> > svnserve
>> >> >> > as a Windows service
>> >> >> > (http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/windows-service.txt).
>> >> >> > I've
>> >> >> > been
>> >> >> > looking around but can't seem to find anyone else having this
>> >> >> > problem.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I've successfully registered a service with the following command:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > sc create svn binpath= "\"C:\Program
>> >> >> > Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe\"
>> >> >> > --service --root U:\svn_repository" displayname= "Subversion
>> >> >> > Server"
>> >> >> > depend=
>> >> >> > Tcpip
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > When I try to (maually) start the service however, I get the two
>> >> >> > timeout
>> >> >> > errors in the event logs:
>> >> >> > "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
>> >> >> > timely
>> >> >> > fashion."
>> >> >> > "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Subversion Server
>> >> >> > service
>> >> >> > to
>> >> >> > connect."
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I've found that these errors can occur when autostarting a sevice
>> >> >> > if
>> >> >> > it
>> >> >> > depends on some other service that might not have been started
>> >> >> > yet.
>> >> >> > However,
>> >> >> > I get these errors trying to start the service manually!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > What's more is that the error message pops up only 1 or 2 seconds
>> >> >> > (!)
>> >> >> > after
>> >> >> > i select "Start" on the service. I thought these messages meant
>> >> >> > that
>> >> >> > it
>> >> >> > took
>> >> >> > more than 30 seconds to start the service. What can be the reason
>> >> >> > for
>> >> >> > this?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Executing
>> >> >> > "C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe\" --daemon --root
>> >> >> > U:\svn_repository
>> >> >> > from the command prompt works just fine!
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is the U drive a mapped share located on another server?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
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