Help with bzr access, please!

Help with bzr access, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Emacs!

Is there by now definitive documentation on how to access the ssh+bzr
server?  I amended my config file a week ago, and now when I try "bzr
update", I get the following half of an error message:

    You tried to execute: bzr serve --inet --directory=/ --allow-writes
    Sorry, you are not allowed to execute that command.
    bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check
    connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.

Can somebody perhaps give me the other half of this error message?  Or
perhaps help me out otherwise.

The config file I changed was at
~/emacs/emacs.bzr/trunk/.bzr/branch/branch.conf.  The change I made was
to replace "sftp:" with "bzr+ssh" each place it occurred.  The file now
looks like this:


    parent_location = bzr+ssh://acmacm@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
    public_branch = bzr+ssh://acmacm@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
    bound_location = bzr+ssh://acmacm@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
    bound = True
    submit_branch = file:///home/acm/emacs/emacs.bzr/quickfixes/

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Andreas Schwab]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

>     You tried to execute: bzr serve --inet --directory=/ --allow-writes
>     Sorry, you are not allowed to execute that command.

You are still using the old IP of bzr.sv.gnu.org.  Please make sure that
it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of 140.186.70.73.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Andreas!

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> >     You tried to execute: bzr serve --inet --directory=/ --allow-writes
> >     Sorry, you are not allowed to execute that command.

> You are still using the old IP of bzr.sv.gnu.org.

Is there a newer one I should be using instead?  What is it?  Where can I
find it documented?

> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
> 140.186.70.73.

    $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org

gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".  Is 140.186.70.72 a correct address with
which to access the bzr repository?  If so, what else is wrong?

> Andreas.

> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
> GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
> "And now for something completely different."

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Andreas Schwab]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
>> 140.186.70.73.
>
>     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org
>
> gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".

And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:17:18AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
> >> 140.186.70.73.

> >     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org

> > gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".

> And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?

140.186.70.73   STREAM bzr.savannah.gnu.org
140.186.70.73   DGRAM  bzr.savannah.gnu.org
140.186.70.73   RAW    bzr.savannah.gnu.org

Wierd.  Surely nslookup and getent should give the same answers?

> Andreas.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Sven Joachim]

Am 19.10.2010 um 20:50 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:17:18AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
>> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> >> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
>> >> 140.186.70.73.
>
>> >     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org
>
>> > gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".
>
>> And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?
>
> 140.186.70.73   STREAM bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> 140.186.70.73   DGRAM  bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> 140.186.70.73   RAW    bzr.savannah.gnu.org
>
> Wierd.  Surely nslookup and getent should give the same answers?

Not necessarily.  AFAIK nslookup always contacts a nameserver, whereas
getent might obtain the IP by other means (e.g. via a hosts(5) file).

Sven

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Chong Yidong]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

>> >     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org
>> > gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".
>
>> And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?
>
> 140.186.70.73   STREAM bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> 140.186.70.73   DGRAM  bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> 140.186.70.73   RAW    bzr.savannah.gnu.org

FWIW, getent gives me 140.186.70.72.

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Sven,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:51:36PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Am 19.10.2010 um 20:50 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:

> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:17:18AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> >> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:22:30PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> >> Please make sure that it resolves to 140.186.70.72 instead of
> >> >> 140.186.70.73.

> >> >     $ nslookup bzr.sv.gnu.org

> >> > gives "Address: 140.186.70.72".

> >> And what do you get from "getent ahosts bzr.savannah.gnu.org"?

> > 140.186.70.73   STREAM bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> > 140.186.70.73   DGRAM  bzr.savannah.gnu.org
> > 140.186.70.73   RAW    bzr.savannah.gnu.org

> > Wierd.  Surely nslookup and getent should give the same answers?

> Not necessarily.  AFAIK nslookup always contacts a nameserver, whereas
> getent might obtain the IP by other means (e.g. via a hosts(5) file).

That was it!  I had an entry for bzr.savannah.gnu.org in my /etc/hosts
(without which there is a 20s delay on every name lookup by SSH; I've
been meaning to debug this for about 3 years, now).

Thanks Sven, thanks Andreas!

> Sven

Re: Help with bzr access, please!

[Stefan Monnier]

> That was it!  I had an entry for bzr.savannah.gnu.org in my /etc/hosts
> (without which there is a 20s delay on every name lookup by SSH; I've
> been meaning to debug this for about 3 years, now).

Depending on the hotspot where I happen to be connected, I get such
problems as well (because the DNS server they tell me to use is
overloaded or something), so I "aptitude install dnsmasq" and I'm now
mostly immune from such problems.


        Stefan