Re: bzr branch makes bogus "No space left on device" claim and dies

[B Smith-Mannschott]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 15:48, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My ~/.bzr.log was owned by root.  This was the cause of the trouble.
>
> Make sure you report this problem to the Bazaar people.  You should have
> a gotten a more useful error message.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/296445

This issue was filed about a year ago. James Westby reports that the
message is produced by the logging library they're using without
communicating this back to the application. Robert Collins asserts,
correctly, that detecting permissions problems on .bzr.log is possible
independently of what the logging library may do or not do. Nicholas
Allen offers a workaround for the problem that isn't actually a
workaround for *this problem*.

I suppose I could grab the bzr code and take a whack at it myself.
(Basically I'd just check for writability of .bzr.log early in startup
and write something more descriptive to STDERR if I find it to be
unwritable. Not pretty, but serviceable.) Maybe next week.

// Ben