bzr: ERROR: exceptions.NameError: global name '_mod_revision' is not defined

Andy Dorman adorman at ironicdesign.com
Thu Nov 29 14:14:42 GMT 2007


Our development team loves Bazaar.

But when attempting to create a new branch for a project off our master
repository, I received the following error message.

----- error output -----
adorman at adorman-ironic-desktop:~/programming/freemail$ bzr branch bzr+ssh://arch@ironicdesign.com/var/arch/master/horde/ bzr+ssh://arch@ironicdesign.com/var/arch/adorman/freemail/dev
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.NameError: global name '_mod_revision' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 802, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 758, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 893, in run
    possible_transports=[to_transport])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 828, in sprout
    result_repo.fetch(source_repository, revision_id=revision_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/remote.py", line 624, in fetch
    not _mod_revision.is_null(revision_id)):
NameError: global name '_mod_revision' is not defined

bzr 0.92.0.candidate.1 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'branch', 'bzr+ssh://arch@ironicdesign.com/var/arch/master/horde/', 'bzr+ssh://arch@ironicdesign.com/var/arch/adorman/freemail/dev']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bzrtools             /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [0.92.0]
  email                /home/adorman/.bazaar/plugins/email [unknown]
  launchpad            /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  multiparent          /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/multiparent.pyc [unknown]

** Please send this report to bazaar at lists.ubuntu.com
   with a description of what you were doing when the
   error occurred.

----- end error output -----

And this may be unrelated.  But when I ran bzr check or bzr status
against any of the projects in our main repository which we use on an
almost daily basis I now receive the following:

bzr: ERROR: No WorkingTree exists for "file:///var/arch/master/horde/.bzr/checkout/".

And of course there is no checkout directory.

Again, thank you for this fantastic tool.  Please let me know if there
is any other info we can provide to help resolve these issues.

-- 
Andy Dorman
Ironic Design, Inc.
AnteSpam.com




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