Error "Can't create a converter from 'native' to 'UTF-8'" when running tracd

[m.dellaquila@…]

I'm trying to run trac as a standalone daemon (tracd) because it's much faster than the cgi version, but I'm getting the following error message whenever I try to do something that needs access to the repository (Timeline, Browse, ..):

Oops...
Trac detected an internal error: 
("Can't create a converter from 'native' to 'UTF-8'", 2)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tracd", line 232, in do_trac_req
    self.do_real_trac_req()
  File "/usr/local/bin/tracd", line 254, in do_real_trac_req
    trac.core.dispatch_request(self.path_info, args, self, self.env, db)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 378, in dispatch_request
    module = module_factory(args, env, database, req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 154, in module_factory
    pool, rep, fs_ptr = open_svn_repos(repos_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 397, in open_svn_repos
    rep = repos.svn_repos_open(repos_dir, pool)
SubversionException: ("Can't create a converter from 'native' to 'UTF-8'", 2)

[Jonas Borgström]

What does your subversion repository path look like?

[m.dellaquila@…]

this is the command I use to launch tracd:

/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/bin/tracd -p 10200 /var/svn/provasvn/trac

where /var/svn/provasvn is the repository path

[Jonas Borgström]

So you placed the trac environment directory inside the subversion repository directory? That's probably not a good idea…

[Christian Boos]

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