Error with Bazaar through FTP: Unrecognised container format

[Martin Pool]

Hi,

Please get the traceback from .bzr.log and post that too.  Actually it
would be better if you can file a bug at http://pad.lv/fb/bzr and put
the traceback on that.

This specific error seems (pending seeing the traceback) to indicate
the header is missing from a bzr pack file, but it starts with what
might be a record chunk.  It is hard to imagine a bzr bug causing
that; perhaps there has been a bug in the ftp client library or the
ftp server.

Please save a copy of the whole repository.  You could check if all of
the .pack files do start with the string

"Bazaar pack format 1 (introduced in 0.18)\n"

> Does anyone has an idea of where these errors could come from ? Our
> workflow is totally paralized until we fix that :(

Errors at this low level tend to indicate filesystem corruption and if
that's the case you need to restore from a backup.  I suppose it's
just possible that only the header is missing and you could manually
restore it.

-- 
Martin