bzr diff crashes with Negative size error.

[C.W.Holeman II]

cwholemanii@XXXXXX:/home/gggggggggg/ddddddd/DDDDDDDD/TEST/steve/SteveTrunks/steveRepo$ bzr log -r -1.. --long
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 30
author: cwholemanii
committer: CW Holeman <cwholemanii@XXXXXX>
branch nick: steveRepo
timestamp: Thu 2010-06-17 14:07:14 -0700
message:
  steve_leaf_checkinadraft.pl FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.odt to Centers/us/Departments/office/.
cwholemanii@XXXXXX:/home/gggggggggg/ddddddd/DDDDDDDD/TEST/steve/SteveTrunks/steveRepo$
cwholemanii@XXXXXX:/home/gggggggggg/ddddddd/DDDDDDDD/TEST/steve/SteveTrunks/steveRepo$ bzr diff
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.SystemError: Negative size passed to PyString_FromStringAndSize

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 846, 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/commands.py", line 807, in ignore_pipe
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1546, in run
    extra_trees=extra_trees, using=using)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/diff.py", line 429, in show_diff_trees
    return differ.show_diff(specific_files, extra_trees)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/diff.py", line 853, in show_diff
    return self._show_diff(specific_files, extra_trees)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/diff.py", line 876, in _show_diff
    executable) in sorted(iterator, key=changes_key):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 1836, in iter_changes
    state._read_dirblocks_if_needed()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/dirstate.py", line 1963, in _read_dirblocks_if_needed
    _read_dirblocks(self)
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 694, in _dirstate_helpers_c._read_dirblocks_c
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 661, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader._parse_dirblocks
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 583, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader._get_entry
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 502, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader.get_next_str
SystemError: Negative size passed to PyString_FromStringAndSize

bzr 1.5 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'diff']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.5.0]
  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
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

This looks very likely to be a duplicate of bug 186014, which was fixed in bzr 1.7. bzr 1.5 is slightly over 2 years old now, I strongly suggest upgrading to 2.0 or newer.