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:sbl...@adelphi.edu] > Sent: 08 April 2011 18:11 > To: users@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 > sbl...@adelphi.edu > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit > http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >
