Trying to checkout ubuntustudio-controls with bzr branch lp:ubuntustudio-controls fails with the below backtrace on Karmic.
Sun 2009-07-05 17:57:19 -0400
0.017 bzr arguments: [u'branch', u'lp:ubuntustudio-controls']
0.028 looking for plugins in /home/mort/.bazaar/plugins
0.028 looking for plugins in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins
0.087 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
1.157 ssh implementation is OpenSSH
6.241 creating repository in file:///home/mort/devel/ubuntu/ubuntustudio-controls/ubuntustudio-controls/.bzr/.
6.262 Using fetch logic to copy between RemoteRepository(bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntustudio-dev/ubuntustudio-controls/trunk/.bzr/)(<RemoteRepositoryFormat>) and KnitPackRepository('file:///home/mort/devel/ubuntu/ubuntustudio-controls/ubuntustudio-controls/.bzr/repository/')(<RepositoryFormatKnitPack6>)
6.446 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 729, in exception_to_return_code
return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 924, in run_bzr
ret = run(*run_argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 560, in run_argv_aliases
return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1147, in run
source_branch=br_from)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1178, in sprout
result_repo.fetch(source_repository, fetch_spec=fetch_spec)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 1553, in fetch
find_ghosts=find_ghosts, fetch_spec=fetch_spec)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 192, in write_locked
result = unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 3139, in fetch
pb=pb, find_ghosts=find_ghosts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 82, in __init__
self.__fetch()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 108, in __fetch
self._fetch_everything_for_search(search)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 136, in _fetch_everything_for_search
stream, from_format, [])
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 4047, in insert_stream
return self._locked_insert_stream(stream, src_format, is_resume)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 4076, in _locked_insert_stream
for substream_type, substream in stream:
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/remote.py", line 1759, in missing_parents_chain
for kind, substream in stream:
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/repository.py", line 467, in record_stream
for bytes in byte_stream:
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/message.py", line 336, in read_streamed_body
_translate_error(self._body_error_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/smart/message.py", line 359, in _translate_error
raise errors.ErrorFromSmartServer(error_tuple)
ErrorFromSmartServer: Error received from smart server: ('error', "Absent factory for ('ubuntustudiocontrols-20080120153904-2owlzz66z6d2b95w-1', '<email address hidden>')")
6.447 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugin.py", line 407, in _get__version__
version_string = _format_version_tuple(version_info)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/__init__.py", line 102, in _format_version_tuple
raise ValueError("version_info %r not valid" % (version_info,))
ValueError: version_info (0, 96, 0, 'dev', 1) not valid
6.447 return code 4
duplicate 354036
The branch you are pulling from needs a small repair done to it.
Instructions and workarounds are in bug 354036