Comment 1 for bug 53131

Before I had this error with Ubuntu, I had the same error with SuSE,
too, where the default python version is also 2.4.

Here's the response I got from the mercurial developers:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: mercurial giving meaningless error messages / imppossible
to run simple commands
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:11:00 -0700
From: Bryan O'Sullivan <email address hidden>
To: Henning Sprang <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>
References: <email address hidden>

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 17:14 +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:

> When trying to use mercurial 0.7 on SuSE Linux 10.1, for example with
> the command
> "hg revert /PATH/TO/FILE" to revert a locally chnaged file, I get the
> absolutely unhelpful message shown at the end of this mail.

Mercurial 0.7 is very old. If you could retry with a newer version,
such as 0.9, that would be a big help.

> I cant tell if the fault is probably on me because I do something
> wrong, because from this message I cant identify anything i could do
> different than I do.

When Mercurial prints a big traceback-style error message like that,
it's a sign that something very unexpected happened. So reporting the
error to the list is quite appropriate.

Thanks,

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