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svn: Malformed network data

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:31 pm
by ^rooker
[PROBLEM]
Recently, I tried to access a local in-house SVN on our server, and received the following error message - regardless of what action I tried (checkout, update, ...):
svn: Malformed network data
I've tried restarting the inetd on the SVN server, but that didn't help.

[SOLUTION]
The actual repository files were stored on an external harddisk (USB) - and it had been de-attached, so svnserve pointed to a non-existing repository folder.

So, if you run into that error on your own server, check if that the repository data is locally accessible on that machine ;)