can't decode byte during bzr init of entire Drupal (core and contrib) CVS tree

[Doug Green]

Follow directions on http://drupal.org/node/277268 to rsync the Drupal core and contrib directories. Warning: This is a very big source tree and takes some time to download.

Then cd to code directory and type

$ bzr init

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcd in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 857, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 797, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 499, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1297, in run
    possible_transports=[to_transport])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 474, in create_branch_convenience
    bzrdir.create_workingtree()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1410, in create_workingtree
    accelerator_tree=accelerator_tree, hardlink=hardlink)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 1388, in initialize
    hardlink=hardlink, delta_from_tree=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 1810, in build_tree
    delta_from_tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 1826, in _build_tree
    for dir, files in wt.walkdirs():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree.py", line 2341, in walkdirs
    current_disk = disk_iterator.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/osutils.py", line 1200, in walkdirs
    names = sorted(_listdir(top))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcd in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

bzr 1.6 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'init']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I believe that it is
a duplicate of bug 77657, so I have marked it as such. Please
continue to report any other bugs that you find.

Thanks,

James

[EmmaJane (emmajane)]

There is a specific file in the directory tree which is causing a problem. It's actually an empty directory in a theme. I have marked it as a bug within Drupal. http://drupal.org/node/302223