"unknown exception encountered, details follow"

[Scott David Daniels]

Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 11:38 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote:
>   
>> Matt Mackall wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 10:03 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> In updating Cython, I just got the exception below.  As I am not
>>>> currently fiddling Cython, I can leave all data here if you want to be
>>>> able to replicate.  I tried to show the state that I'm in.  Let me know
>>>> if someone wants to try to replicate (or if not); I'm willing to spend
>>>> some time on it with someone who knows the code.  If I hear from
>>>> nobody, this offer expires in a week.
>>>>
>>>> --Scott David Daniels
>>>> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> C:\Projects\cython>hg pull -u
>>>> pulling from http://hg.cython.org/cython/
>>>> searching for changes
>>>> adding changesets
>>>> adding manifests
>>>> adding file changes
>>>> transaction abort!
>>>> rollback completed
>>>> ** unknown exception encountered, details follow
>>>> ** report bug details to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts
>>>> ** or mercurial at selenic.com
>>>> ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.2.1)
>>>> ** Extensions loaded: win32text
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "hg", line 27, in <module>
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 16, in run
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 25, in dispatch
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 41, in _runcatch
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 372, in _dispatch
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 247, in runcommand
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 417, in _runcommand
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 377, in checkargs
>>>>   File "mercurial\dispatch.pyc", line 371, in <lambda>
>>>>   File "mercurial\util.pyc", line 718, in check
>>>>   File "mercurial\commands.pyc", line 2174, in pull
>>>>   File "mercurial\localrepo.pyc", line 1495, in pull
>>>>   File "mercurial\localrepo.pyc", line 2043, in addchangegroup
>>>>   File "mercurial\revlog.pyc", line 1221, in addgroup
>>>> mpatch.mpatchError: patch cannot be decoded
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Please send us the output of hg verify.
>>>   
>>>       
>> C:\Projects\cython>hg verify
>> checking changesets
>> checking manifests
>> crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
>> checking files
>> 905 files, 1840 changesets, 4336 total revisions
>>     
>
> Looks like I didn't notice this was a pull the first time around. So
> either there's a verify problem on the server or something is going
> wrong over the wire. Is this error repeatable? If not, the server may be
> sporadically hanging up on you. Might be related to this:
>
> http://hg.cython.org/
>
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>   
It's back up, and I get the same response.  Should I instrument it somehow?

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org