svn checkout: No repository found

I find that I need to kill the svnserve process and start it again.

On the terminal:

//finding and killing the process

ps -ef  | grep svnserve
sudo kill processID.

just a real world example looks like below:

root@debian:/home/arun# ps -ef | grep svnserv
root      2697     1  0 13:23 ?        00:00:00 svnserve -d
root      2935  2574  0 14:20 pts/1    00:00:00 grep svnserv
root@debian:/home/arun# kill 2697

//start server

svnserve -d -r <path to repository>