Bazaar Won't Commit or Update

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue Sep 27 14:23:51 UTC 2011


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On 9/27/2011 4:02 PM, A. S. Budden wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> One of my colleagues is having some fairly major problems with
> Bazaar. He has made some changes to the files in his working
> directory and now cannot commit (or even update).  This seems to
> have affected the (bzr-externals) library modules in the project as
> well.  We use heavyweight checkouts on all of our projects here (in
> case it makes a difference).
> 
> The output of "bzr update":
> 
> bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> Similar output comes from "bzr ci -m Message" or "bzr pull 
> f:/path/to/repository/branch".  Adding the "--verbose" option or
> the "--no-plugins" option makes no difference.
> 
> I'm a bit lost as to what to do with this: it doesn't tell me
> which file or directory is missing!  This is a little scary as it's
> the first fairly fundamental problem we've had with Bazaar...
> 
> Any help anyone could offer in getting this working again (or at
> least working out why it isn't working) would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Al
> 
> Some more information in case it's helpful:

check '.bzr.log' which should have a traceback, or use "bzr ci
- -Derror" which will also give you the traceback.

As an example, if a directory like .bzr/repository/obsolete_packs was
deleted, you could get something like this.

John
=:->


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