Comment 5 for bug 365615

I think I have the same problem. This happens while 'bzr branch' to a shared repository.
I get:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AttributeError: 'AbsentContentFactory' object has no attribute 'get_bytes_as'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 831, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1026, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 643, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 1173, in run
    source_branch=br_from)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1176, in sprout
    result_repo.fetch(source_repository, revision_id=revision_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 1552, in fetch
    find_ghosts=find_ghosts, fetch_spec=fetch_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 192, in write_locked
    result = unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 3184, in fetch
    pb=pb, find_ghosts=find_ghosts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 79, in __init__
    self.__fetch()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 105, in __fetch
    self._fetch_everything_for_search(search)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/fetch.py", line 133, in _fetch_everything_for_search
    stream, from_format, [])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 3948, in insert_stream
    return self._locked_insert_stream(stream, src_format, is_resume)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 4037, in _locked_insert_stream
    self.target_repo.commit_write_group()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 1416, in commit_write_group
    self._commit_write_group()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 2287, in _commit_write_group
    return self._pack_collection._commit_write_group()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 2097, in _commit_write_group
    if not self.autopack():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 1466, in autopack
    return self._do_autopack()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 1506, in _do_autopack
    reload_func=self._restart_autopack)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/groupcompress_repo.py", line 584, in _execute_pack_operations
    packer.pack()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/pack_repo.py", line 754, in pack
    return self._create_pack_from_packs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/groupcompress_repo.py", line 458, in _create_pack_from_packs
    self._copy_chk_texts()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/groupcompress_repo.py", line 428, in _copy_chk_texts
    reuse_blocks=False):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/groupcompress.py", line 1415, in _insert_record_stream
    for record in stream:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repofmt/groupcompress_repo.py", line 297, in next_stream
    bytes = record.get_bytes_as('fulltext')
AttributeError: 'AbsentContentFactory' object has no attribute 'get_bytes_as'