OK as I was advised by JAM on IRC I did: bzr whoami `bzr whoami` and now my problem is fixed... A bit weird... I guess the bzr whoami was getting the value from the system, but when I actually specify a name it stores it somwhere, which kind of workaround the problem I was experiencing... all this is a bit weird to me... Anyway thanks for the help ;-) -- Alex <div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/31 Asmodehn Shade <<a href="mailto:asmodehn@gmail.com">asmodehn@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I really do not think so, since this happens almost everytime after a big transfer... and the network doesnt break that often. I had it today trying to :  bzr branch bzr+ssh://[...]/home/autobzr/bzr.dev between remote locations... plus bzr whoami shows the right user... and autobzr@deploy:~$ python Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Jul 20 2008, 20:47:25) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pwd >>> pwd.getpwuid(2050) ('autobzr', '*', 2050, 3021, 'Automated BZR User', '/home/autobzr', '/bin/bash') >>> I would think it s something more subtle... While writing that, on another branch in other locations, it happened again... here is the log 8925.873                60 body bytes read 8925.873  Reading entire index bzr+ssh://deploy.sgf.in.iz/home/autobzr/deployBZR/.bzr/repository/indices/6bf979baa20c5f7e3a880bdb63afbb66.six 8925.873  RemoteSSHTransport.readv 1 offsets => 1 coalesced => 1 requests (1) 8925.873  hpss call w/readv: 'readv', '/home/autobzr/deployBZR/.bzr/repository/indices/794eb3819839d190afe98a8583bd55f4.six' 8925.873                4 bytes in readv request 8926.078     result:   ('readv',) 8926.078                60 body bytes read 8926.079  Reading entire index bzr+ssh://deploy.sgf.in.iz/home/autobzr/deployBZR/.bzr/repository/indices/794eb3819839d190afe98a8583bd55f4.six 8928.047  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/commands.py", line 893, in run_bzr_catch_errors     return run_bzr(argv)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/commands.py", line 839, in run_bzr     ret = run(*run_argv)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/commands.py", line 539, in run_argv_aliases     return self.run(**all_cmd_args)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 980, in run     force_new_repo=standalone)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1113, in sprout     result_repo.fetch(source_repository, revision_id=revision_id)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/repository.py", line 989, in fetch     find_ghosts=find_ghosts)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/repository.py", line 3115, in fetch     find_ghosts=find_ghosts)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 192, in write_locked     result = unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/repository.py", line 2840, in fetch     self.target._pack_collection._save_pack_names()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 1660, in _save_pack_names     self.lock_names()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 1275, in lock_names     self.repo.control_files.lock_write()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockable_files.py", line 258, in lock_write<div class="Ih2E3d">     token_from_lock = self._lock.lock_write(token=token) </div>  File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 576, in lock_write     return self.wait_lock()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 500, in wait_lock     return self.attempt_lock()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 461, in attempt_lock     result = self._attempt_lock()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 223, in _attempt_lock<div class="Ih2E3d">     tmpname = self._create_pending_dir() </div>  File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 281, in _create_pending_dir<div class="Ih2E3d">     info_bytes = self._prepare_info() </div>  File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/lockdir.py", line 436, in _prepare_info     user = config.user_email()   File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/config.py", line 214, in user_email<div class="Ih2E3d">     return extract_email_address(self.username()) </div>  File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/config.py", line 242, in username<div class="Ih2E3d">     name, email = _auto_user_id() </div>  File "/home/autobzr/bzr.dev/bzrlib/config.py", line 842, in _auto_user_id<div class="Ih2E3d">     w = pwd.getpwuid(uid) KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 2050' </div>Format of my repository : Shared repository with trees (format: rich-root-pack) command : ~/bzr.dev/bzr branch -Dhpss -Dindex -r1 bzr+ssh://[...]/home/autobzr/deployBZR/branch yes my first revision is pretty big (^_^) round 2.5GB I believe... <div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/30 Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net" target="_blank">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>><div> <div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think its a machine configuration issue - that uid is not mappable to a username on your machine; if you're using ldap or something this could indicate a network failure happened. -Rob </blockquote></div></div></div> </blockquote></div>