view .bzr.log failed due of extra quoting

[Martitza]

bzr-explorer 1.0.1 installed with the bzr 2.1.1 standalone instalelr on a clean Windows XP box.

Start Bzr Explorer and navigate to Bazaar > Explore > System Log. Get the following dialog:

Select bzr:ERROR: [ERROR 123} The filename, directory or volume label syntax is incorrect: u'''C:\\Documents and Settings\\root\\My Documents\\.bzr.log

Note that bzr log is actually being written to C:\Documents and Settings\root\My Documents\.bzr
Notethat the file is just .bzr, not .bzr.log

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Martitza пишет:
> Public bug reported:
>
> bzr-explorer 1.0.1 installed with the bzr 2.1.1 standalone instalelr on
> a clean Windows XP box.
>
> Start Bzr Explorer and navigate to Bazaar > Explore > System Log. Get
> the following dialog:
>
> Select bzr:ERROR: [ERROR 123} The filename, directory or volume label
> syntax is incorrect: u'''C:\\Documents and Settings\\root\\My
> Documents\\.bzr.log

I suspect we have the problem with wrong number of quotes, maybe.

> Note that bzr log is actually being written to C:\Documents and Settings\root\My Documents\.bzr
> Notethat the file is just .bzr, not .bzr.log

Please, show the output of `bzr version` command.

[Martitza (martitzam)]

Guys: I am a complete idiot today. When I installed the new OS, I forgot
that Windows defaults to hiding "known" extensions. And ".log" is a known
extension. The file was there all along. The .bzr is really .bzr.log. I
apologize for the waste of time. I wonder what else I did wrong yesterday.
Let's invalidate this issue, please.

~M

C:\Documents and Settings\root>bzr version
Bazaar (bzr) 2.1.1
  Python interpreter: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\python25.dll 2.5.4
  Python standard library: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
  Platform: Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
  bzrlib: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: C:\Documents and Settings\root\Application
Data\bazaar\2.0
  Bazaar log file: C:\Documents and Settings\root\My Documents\.bzr.log

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[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Martitza пишет:
> Guys: I am a complete idiot today. When I installed the new OS, I forgot
> that Windows defaults to hiding "known" extensions. And ".log" is a known
> extension. The file was there all along. The .bzr is really .bzr.log. I
> apologize for the waste of time. I wonder what else I did wrong yesterday.
> Let's invalidate this issue, please.

No need for bashing yourself so much. I don't think error message you
get is invalid though.

Can you check the problem one more time and show relevant part of
.bzr.log with traceback related to this error, please?

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[Martitza (martitzam)]

You are all very kind. The .bzr.log says very little about this. Here it is:

Mon 2010-06-28 14:43:48 -0700
0.062 bazaar version: 2.1.1
0.062 bzr arguments: [u'qviewer', u'"C:\\Documents and Settings\\root\\My Documents\\.bzr.log"']
0.078 looking for plugins in C:/Documents and Settings/root/Application Data/bazaar/2.0/plugins
0.078 looking for plugins in D:/Program Files/Bazaar/plugins
0.265 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'cp437'
0.406 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'cp437'
0.531 None

33.548 Transferred: 0KiB (0.0K/s r:0K w:0K)
33.548 return code 0

Again, this was obtained by navigating Bazaar > Explore > System Log

Note that if I run

      bzr qviewer "C:\Documents and Settings\root\My Documents\.bzr.log"

from the command line, I get a qviewer window with the logfile displayed. Note the double quotes to protect the spaces in the filename. Also note that single quotes do not work:

      bzr qviewer 'C:\Documents and Settings\root\My Documents\.bzr.log'

gives

      bzr: ERROR: extra argument to command qviewer: and

because that's "just how Windows is."

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Martitza пишет:
> You are all very kind. The .bzr.log says very little about this. Here
> it is:
>
> Mon 2010-06-28 14:43:48 -0700
> 0.062 bazaar version: 2.1.1
> 0.062 bzr arguments: [u'qviewer', u'"C:\\Documents and Settings\\root\\My Documents\\.bzr.log"']

The path should not be quoted here. This is the bug.

> 0.078 looking for plugins in C:/Documents and Settings/root/Application Data/bazaar/2.0/plugins
> 0.078 looking for plugins in D:/Program Files/Bazaar/plugins
> 0.265 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'cp437'
> 0.406 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'cp437'
> 0.531 None
>
> 33.548 Transferred: 0KiB (0.0K/s r:0K w:0K)
> 33.548 return code 0

> because that's "just how Windows is."

Please, don't start this. Windows command-line has no support for
single quote and this is known fact.

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All the dude wanted was his rug back

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

I think it's a dup, but I will try to find the match later.