Notes about Bazaar
General instructions
Administration
- We used to have our own Bazaar server. The instructions are here: Administration of own bazaar server
- Today, we are using Launchpad, which allows everbody to create his own branch without involvement of any administrator
Frequently asked questions
bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock (remote lock)
This can happen when cancelling during a commit, and probably in other situations too. You will get the error the next time your are attempting to commit.
Search terms: bzr unlock, Bazaar locked, Bazaar unlock
Solution: open the command line console (eg. cmd.exe), and change into the directory of your branch, and run:
bzr break-lock
bzr: ERROR: paramiko.SSHException: lost ssh-agent
If you get such an error on Windows 7 64-bit then try to run pageant not as Administrator but as normal user.
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent
If you get such an error then please have a look here or here
bzr: ERROR: Cannot lock LockDir(...): Transport operation not possible: http does not support mkdir()
On getting such an error you've probably been trying to use something like lp:~username instead of bzr+ssh://
Solution1: Make sure you have pageant running (not as admin) and a key loaded.
Solution2: Execute "bzr launchpad-login <username>" on a command line.
Solution3: Perhaps you reinstalled your system. Then you need to create a new public/private-keypair. Possibly you need to execute bzr checkout ... afterwards to apply the new key.
bzr: ERROR: Failed to rename ... to ...: [Error 5] Access denied
If you get such en error on checking out a branch then please disable your antivirus program, delete the .bzr-folder from your local branch and try again. See here for further information.