svnserve: Can't bind server socket: Address already in use

I was done setting up svn and i ran "svnserve -d -r path"  and got the following:


svnserve: Can't bind server socket: Address already in use.

In my case I had previously set up svn which was already listening on the default port 3690.
I solved this simply by looking for that svn process and killing it.
Grep it on commandline with;
ps -ef  | grep svnserve

This will show the running svn process. Just get the processID/number and kill it and you should be set..

e.g sudo kill processID.