Internal Error on Commit: exceptions.AttributeError: children

[Steve Comrie]

Trying to run a commit to push a couple files that were changed from the a production server back to the test server.

Got the following error:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: children

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 2355, in run
    author=author)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 246, in commit
    result = WorkingTree3.commit(self, message, revprops, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line 187, in commit
    revprops=revprops, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 355, in commit
    self._update_builder_with_changes()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 656, in _update_builder_with_changes
    self._populate_from_inventory(specific_files)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 784, in _populate_from_inventory
    content_summary)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 826, in _record_entry
    self.parent_invs, path, self.work_tree, content_summary)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 266, in record_entry_contents
    self.new_inventory.add(ie)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 1185, in add
    if entry.name in parent.children:
AttributeError: children

bzr 1.3.1 on python 2.4.3.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'commit', '-m', 'Pull down from live site']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  launchpad /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

1.3.1 is pretty old, can you upgrade and check that the bug has been fixed in a more recent version.

If upgrading is not an option, I think there was bugs involving symlinks that triggered such tracebacks, can you issue 'bzr status' and report ?

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

probably the same as bug 192859