Ubuntu-Server 17.10's redmine and mercurial are incompatible. That leads to problems in redmine.

[Fred Teich]

The available version of redmine 3.3 is incompatible with the shipped version of mercurial (4.3).

The integration of mercurial repositories does not work than. In the apache error log I can find entries like this:

redminehelper.py: missing attributes: norepo, optionalrepo, inferrepo
App 17488 stderr: *** (use @command decorator to register 'rhmanifest')
App 17488 stderr: hg: unknown command 'rhmanifest'
App 17488 stderr: (did you mean manifest?)

Replacing the contents of /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/scm/adapters/mercurial/redminehelper.py with the current contents from the github repository https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redmine/redmine/master/lib/redmine/scm/adapters/mercurial/redminehelper.py fixes the problem for me.

An automatic redmine update caused the same problem again so I had to replace the contents again und this is why I create this ticket now.

Please update redmine to a more recent version.

Ubuntu 18.04 contains the same old version of redmine. To the problem should occur there, too.

Regards,

Fred

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu-Server 17.10
Package: redmine (3.3) and mercurial (4.3)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-38.43-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 11 09:53:51 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-03 (614 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: redmine
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2018-02-08 (92 days ago)

I created this report on my desktop computer and not on my server.