[Python-apps-team] Bug#503865: mercurial: hg clone fails when writing to NFS mount

[Bryan Gartner]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0.1-5.1
Severity: important


hg clone to an NFS mounted filesystem, automounted with options
(rw,vers=3,proto=tcp), fails with the following errors:

requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 126 changesets with 247 changes to 55 files
updating working directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hg", line 20, in <module>
    mercurial.dispatch.run()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 
20, in run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 
29, in dispatch
    return _runcatch(u, args)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 
93, in _runcatch
    ui.warn(_("abort: %s\n") % inst[1])
IndexError: tuple index out of range

FWIW, the same command when writing to a local directory succeeds
on the same host system.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  mercurial-common              1.0.1-5.1  Scalable distributed version contr
ii  python                        2.5.2-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.8.7      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                           3.0010     Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  python-beaker                 1.0.2-1    Simple WSGI middleware that uses t
ii  rcs                           5.7-24     The GNU Revision Control System

Versions of packages mercurial suggests:
ii  python-elementtree          1.2.6-12     Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
pn  python-mysqldb              <none>       (no description available)
ii  python-pygments             0.10-1       syntax highlighting package writte
ii  python-subversion           1.5.1dfsg1-1 Python bindings for Subversion
pn  qct                         <none>       (no description available)
ii  tk8.4 [wish]                8.4.19-2     Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
pn  vim | emacs                 <none>       (no description available)

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