Comment 6 for bug 82634

This particular code is now gone, as we no longer have assertions.

If the connection is refused you now get a reasonable error with no traceback. I'm not sure about timeouts.

mbp@grace% bzr log bzr+ssh://launchpad.net/
ssh: connect to host launchpad.net port 22: Connection refused
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: please check connectivity and permissions