Eclipse hangs in bazaar operations that require user input

[Guillermo Gonzalez]

Commands that require authentication or unexpected (by bzr-eclipse) input hangs Eclipse.

This happen because there is no way to tell Bazaar the user and password to use from the command line.

There is a Blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/bzr/+spec/authentication-ring) which (when implemented) should allow bzr-eclipse to execute commands that require authentication.

[Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok)]

there is a partial workaround (at least in *nix systems), which is the use of ssh-agent/ssh-askapass for sftp connections.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

1) Have a look at bzrlib.ui and implements your own get_password
2) Embedding user and password in url will avoid bzr prompting for a password

[Niklas Andersson (niklas-andersson)]

My Eclipse hung when I had to accept the hostkey for bazaar.launchpad.net - that is similar problem but not related to passing user/pass credentials - I think.

[Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok)]

Hi Niklas,
Thanks for your comments,
this is not strictly user/pass input, but is user input.
This is the same problem that happen when ssh ask your passphrase, bzr
spawns a ssh subprocess and this process is the one that waits for
user input.

I'm trying to find a way to solve this issue.

Regards,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Niklas Andersson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> My Eclipse hung when I had to accept the hostkey for
> bazaar.launchpad.net - that is similar problem but not related to
> passing user/pass credentials - I think.
>
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> Eclipse hangs in bazaar operations that require user input
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121936
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> Status in Bazaar Plugin for Eclipse: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Commands that require authentication or unexpected (by bzr-eclipse) input hangs Eclipse.
>
> This happen because there is no way to tell Bazaar the user and password to use from the command line.
>
> There is a Blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/bzr/+spec/authentication-ring) which (when implemented) should allow bzr-eclipse to execute commands that require authentication.
>

[Norm 2782 (norm2782)]

Hi. How's a fix for this issue coming along? We're experiencing it too and it's a roadblock in adopting Bazaar as a VCS : )

[Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok)]

Hi Norm,
I wasn't able to get the free time to fix this, also it depends on big changes to the xmloutput plugin.

What problem are you hitting?
Maybe we can find a workaround for it

Regards,

[Norm 2782 (norm2782)]

Hi Guillermo,

Sorry for the late response. I wasn't notified by Launchpad that there was a reply in this thread :)
We've decided to stick with our existing Subversion setup for now, so I can't really recall the details of the issue anymore. We will revisit Bazaar with the open sourcing of Launchpad in a few months. If the issue is still open by that time I'll be glad to help you find some workarounds :)

Cheers

[Archimedes Trajano (trajano)]

The blueprint says it is "implemented" already.

Just wondering though, is it possible to make BzrEclipse use the SSH implementation that is already present with Eclipse? I was thinking having passing an override on the SSH implementation used by Bazaar that calls upon Eclipse instead.

[xaav (xaav)]

To do that, you would have to do something like jbzr. Right now, bzr-eclipse uses the native installation, so It is getting it's SSH settings from the environment.

[Alexander Taler (alex-idereal)]

In my recent attempts I was unable to reproduce this.