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.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > Oren Cohen <oren.co...@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 > > -- > Philip Martin | Subversion Committer > WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*