Re: "malformed network data"

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

Andy Peters wrote:
> Hi, folks,
> 
> I've search the archives of this and the dev list to no avail.
> 
> I'm trying to set up svnserve on Mac OS X 10.3.7.  I've grabbed the 
> 1.1.2 non-Fink build from 
> http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/ and I've installed it 
> in the usual manner.
> 
> I created a user called svnowner and put him in group staff.
> 
> I've created a repository called /svnroot, and used
> 
> $ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /svnroot
> 
> to create the repository.  I then chown'ed /svnroot to svnowner:staff.
> 
> I made sure my /etc/services file included the svn port (it's included 
> by default in OS X), and added an svn entry to my xinetd.d directory.
> 
> $ netstat -a | grep svn
> 
> returns
> 
> tcp4    0    0    *.svn    *.*    LISTEN
> 
> so I assume we're listening on the proper port.
> 
> Now, if I use the svn client to do anything involving the server, e.g., 
> given a tree in ~/devel/foo,
> 
> macaroon:~/devel andy $ svn import foo svn://macaroon
> 
> I always get the following error (after my editor pops up and asks me 
> for my comments):
> 
> subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/marshal.c:722 (apr_err=210004)
> svn: Malformed network data
> 
> I tried installing the 1.1.1 build and got the same error.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what causes this and how can I fix this?

Did you make sure you were using the -i (or --inetd) flag for svnserve 
in your inetd config?  That's required for running under inetd.

-garrett

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