<html><body> Hello all, Thank you for the replies. I had forgotten that we use the "reserved_edit" plugin, which appears to be the culprit. I deleted all of the missing "central" branches that I had "bzr init"d because they were unreachable, moved the reserved_edit plugin out of the plugins folder, and I was able to re-run "bzr heads --dead-only" without any error messages. I don't know how the reserved edit plugin is keeping track of these "central branches", or how to tell reserved edit that a branch no longer exists, but at least knowing to remove the plugin before executing "bzr heads" gives me a solution. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Kalisiak Senior Embedded Systems Engineer ATTO Technology, Inc. Phone: +1.716.691.1999 ext. 274 Fax +1.716.691.9353 "Powering the World's Networks & Storage" </body></html>