Assuming the popoverView is the section of the svc view you want the popover to present from, your code should read:
[popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:popoverView.frame inView:svc.view
permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
This will correct that error.
Edit: The reason it's probably not displaying for you is because you seem to be misunderstanding the presentPopoverFromRect method. The frame you indicate in the presentPopoverFromRect method needs to correspond the point of the view you'd like the popover to emerge from. For example, to have the popover present from the top left corner of the view, do something like this:
[popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1) inView:svc.view
permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];