I upgraded to 1.8 temporarily and it gave me a more specific error message. It was looking for a repo on a nas. Once I fixed the DNS to that nas it worked.
Thanks,
> On Jun 18, 2015, at 5:45 AM, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>
> Oren Cohen <oren.cohen_at_accedo.tv> writes:
>
>> I am running subversion-1.6.11-12.el6_6.x86_64 on centos 6.4. When
>> running “svn st -u” I get: svn: Malformed network data
>>
>> svnserve is running as a service with —daemon and is listening
>> according to netstat -a.
>>
>> tcp 0 0 *:svn *:* LISTEN
>
> That tells you something is listening but it may not be svnserve, you
> need to look at the network traffic. Use netcat/telnet on the server
> and run "nc localhost svn" or "telnet localhost svn" and you should see
> something like:
>
> ( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries commit-revprops depth log-revprops partial-replay ) ) )
>
> If you get something like that then you need to look at the traffic when
> running "svn st". Some ways to do that are here:
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/debugging.html#net-trace
>
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> Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
> WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
Received on 2015-06-18 16:39:22 CEST