You need to tell svnserve where your repository is on the machine. e.g.
svnserve -d -r /path/to/repo
It's probably trying to serve a repository rooted at /, which is
probably not where yours is.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Bloch [mailto:sbloch_at_adelphi.edu]
> Sent: 08 April 2011 18:11
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: beginner admin question: no repository found
>
> The machine on which my svn repository lives was recently
> upgraded. I didn't have svnserve in a run-on-reboot script,
> so I started it by hand (log in as "svn", then type "svnserve
> -d"). But whenever I make any requests of the server (e.g.
> "svn ls svn://localhost", much less "svn update"), I get the
> error message "svn: No repository found in
> 'svn://localhost'". I then do a "ps x", and I see something like
> 11550 ? Ss 0:00 svnserve -d
> 11556 ? Z 0:00 [svnserve] <defunct>
>
> Is 11556 just a subprocess created to handle this request,
> which for whatever reason hasn't gone away yet? Or is it the
> actually svn server, which for some reason died as soon as it
> was asked to do any work?
The former. The svnserve daemon spawns a child process for each
connection. On UNIX derivatives, zombie processes (the Z above) are
created when a child process exits and the parent doesn't call wait() to
retrieve its exit status. They get cleaned up by the init process
eventually.
>
> I've done an "svnadmin verify", and the repository seems to
> be fine. None of the config files has been changed in over a
> year, so I doubt they're corrupted. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> Stephen Bloch
> sbloch_at_adelphi.edu
>
>
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Received on 2011-04-11 16:33:29 CEST