Re: Subversion server no longer accessible after upgrading to NetBSD 4.0.1

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:02:50PM -0500, Adrian Maier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Manuel Bouyer 
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:46:15PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Before the upgrade, my server used to run NetBSD 3.0 . One of the
> >> services running
> >> on this machine is the subversion server (v.1.3.0)  ) is called from
> >> rc.local with:
> >> su username  -c "/usr/pkg/bin/svnserve -d -r  /data/svn_repo "
> >>
> >> So,  i was able to connect to the svn repository with urls like "
> >> svn://192.168.0.2/repo/blabla" .
> >>
> >>
> >> Yesterday I have upgraded the machine to NetBSD 4.0.1 .   The pkgsrc
> >> packages are
> >> still the old ones ( the plan is to upgrade all of them, too,  when I
> >> find the time to take
> >> care of this ).
> >>
> >> The current problem is that now I am getting :
> >> svn: Can't connect to host '192.168.0.2': Connection refused
> >>
> >> whenever I try to access the svn repository using the "svn://"  protocol .
> >>
> >> The svnserve process is launched at boot  and seems to be operational
> >> (it is listed
> >> in the ps  , and  when I run it manually it doesn't generate any
> >> errors).   Yet,
> >> it is not accessible.
> >
> > Does 'netstat -a -f inet' list the svn port as listening ?
> 
> No,  the svn port does not appear in the list of listening ports.
> 
> I have upgraded the svn to 1.4.2.  Nothing changed.  I have also
> tried to run the svnserve with the options:
> svnserve -r /data/svn -X --foreground --listen-port=9009
> 
> but it is not giving any kind of hint about what could be wrong. The bad thing
> is that svnserve doesn't seem to create any kind of log file. And
> it also doesn't have command line options for increasing the
> verbosity .

Well, I've no idea about what could be wrong then. maybe ktrace
would give a hint ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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