help on failing commits

[Martin Pool]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Andrew King <eurokang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to confirm, I have seen this bug a number of times with different users
> recently. We fixed the problem by calling bzr pack on the repository. I have
> no idea why this works or what the problem is. We have seen it on both
> windows and linux, running bzr-1.7.1. I did not file a bug.

Tim was asking about 270405, which is where we get a 'file not found'
error even though the pack file does exist.  If you're seeing that too
on Linux that would be highly useful information.

However, I suspect what you're actually getting is
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/153786>, for which John just
posted a fix.  In this case the pack file has been removed by a
concurrent process and we need to catch up.

So basically you can tell the difference by, after the error occurs,
looking to see whether the named file is still present or not.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>