SVN not found on Mac after install

I performed a pretty basic install on my Mac as a test of BitNami’s systems, and I had hopes that it would just work. I am using the “bitnami-trac-0.10.4-9-osx-x86-installer.app” version.

The install seemed to go smoothly, but I ran into this problem on calling Trac:
Traceback (most recent call last): File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py”, line 406, in dispatch_request dispatcher.dispatch(req) File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py”, line 191, in dispatch chosen_handler = self._pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler) File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py”, line 263, in _pre_process_request chosen_handler = f.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler) File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py”, line 73, in pre_process_request self.get_repository(req.authname).sync() File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py”, line 104, in get_repository repos = self._connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, authname) File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py”, line 234, in get_repository repos = SubversionRepository(dir, None, self.log) File ”/Applications/trac-0.10.4-9/trac/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/versioncontrol/svn_fs.py”, line 265, in init % path)
TracError: /Users/kevink/Documents/Trac does not appear to be a Subversion repository.

It is pretty clear what is wrong, but I wanted to report this issue as I move forward to try and figure out how and why this happened. I am going to look and see what BitNami actually did. Maybe there was a conflict with my old Subversion install, which shouldn’t be a problem, as I understand it.

If anyone is able to offer any guidance on how to debug this, I’ll gladly take it. If I figure it out on my own, I’ll post my results here.

Kevin

So, this is almost a stupidly simple problem to solve, but me being a newbie to svn and trac, it took some playing around for me to figure out.

As there wasn’t an svn repository in the location described by Trac, all I had to do was create it via command line:

svnadmin create /Users/kevink/Documents/Trac

I wonder how the bitnami install missed this? But it was pretty easy to resolve.

Kevin

Hi,

Did you create an example project during installation? Can you give a detailed step by step guide on how to get the error? (I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean by “calling Trac”). I just installed it and found the example repository created and working.

Cheers