help on failing commits

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 10:10 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

I suspect these are the same bug.

My theory:
 - delta generation during data insertion into the repository fails
because the basis text cannot be constructed

-Rob
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