Confusing error with BZR_SSH=plink set when plink not installed: WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[Angus Helm]

I'm trying to push in bazaar explorer but it gives me the following status message:

Run command: bzr push sftp://<email address hidden>:22/bzr/video_system/trunk/ --directory C:/Users/Angus/Code/work/video_system_tr...
bzr: ERROR: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Running bzr push from the command line gives the same error.

This is my traceback from .bzr.log:

Thu 2010-04-01 12:08:06 -0500
0.161 bazaar version: 2.1.0
0.161 bzr arguments: [u'qsubprocess', u'--bencode', u'l4:push66:sftp://<email address hidden>:22/bzr/video_system/trunk/11:--directory43:C:/Users/Angus/Code/work/video_system_trunk10:--remember11:--no-stricte']
0.175 looking for plugins in C:/Users/Angus/AppData/Roaming/bazaar/2.0/plugins
0.175 looking for plugins in C:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar/plugins
0.555 encoding stdout as osutils.get_user_encoding() 'cp1252'
0.772 bazaar version: 2.1.0
0.773 bzr arguments: [u'push', u'sftp://<email address hidden>:22/bzr/video_system/trunk/', u'--directory', u'C:/Users/Angus/Code/work/video_system_trunk', u'--remember', u'--no-strict']
0.778 encoding stdout as osutils.get_user_encoding() 'cp1252'
0.818 opening working tree 'C:/Users/Angus/Code/work/video_system_trunk'
0.954 bzr-svn: using Subversion 1.6.6 ()
1.032 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 853, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1055, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 661, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 665, in run_direct
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 122, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 156, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "C:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar/plugins\qbzr\lib\commands.py", line 788, in run
  File "C:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar/plugins\qbzr\lib\subprocess.py", line 786, in run_subprocess_command
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1055, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 661, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 665, in run_direct
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 122, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 156, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 1146, in run
  File "bzrlib\push.pyo", line 83, in _show_push_branch
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 873, in open_from_transport
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyo", line 1644, in do_catching_redirections
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 860, in find_format
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 1820, in find_format
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 1830, in probe_transport
  File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyo", line 435, in get_bytes
  File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyo", line 425, in get
  File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyo", line 397, in _get_sftp
  File "bzrlib\transport\sftp.pyo", line 389, in _create_connection
  File "bzrlib\transport\ssh.pyo", line 373, in connect_sftp
  File "bzrlib\transport\ssh.pyo", line 366, in _connect
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 594, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 822, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

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1.032 return code 3

[Angus Helm (angus.helm)]

I'm now getting the same error when running bzr branch:

Run command: bzr branch sftp://vlm-virtualserver1.uta.edu:22/bzr/video_system/trunk C:/Users/Angus/Code/work/video_system_april1 --use-existi...
bzr: ERROR: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[Angus Helm (angus.helm)]

Okay, I had BZR_SSH=plink in my environment variables, removing it and restarting bazaar explorer fixed it.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

Angus, do you think the problem is solved and we can close this bug?

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

The error in this case (BZR_SSH set to BZR_SSH=plink, but no plink installed) is unnecessarily confusing. So that at least is a bug we should fix, although probably not very urgently.

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

We just had another occurrence of this reported on #launchpad.