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kesten broughton (dathomir) wrote : Re: [Bug 894051] Re: bzr crashed with OverflowError in _create_z_content_from_chunks(): size does not fit in an int

Thanks a lot martin.

I followed the link. That's great that you get so much feedback from the
team when working on a patch. I look forward to finding something to work
on. Do you have any "scrum" meeting times on the IRC?

kesten

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Martin Packman <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 531612 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531612
>
> Thanks for the interest in contributing Kesten. There's actually a great
> way for you to get started here, as your suggestion to warn when adding
> large files was recently implemented on the development version of
> Bazaar, and you can follow nearly the whole process Shannon went through
> in the merge proposal here:
>
> <https://code.launchpad.net/~weyrick/bzr/54624-warn-on-large-
> files/+merge/70691>
>
> Drop by IRC or join the mailing list for more assistance:
>
> <irc://irc.freenode.net/bzr>
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/bazaar>
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/894051
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> Title:
> bzr crashed with OverflowError in _create_z_content_from_chunks():
> size does not fit in an int
>
> Status in Bazaar Version Control System:
> New
> Status in “bzr” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Characteristic: I have about 185 new files on a local working directory
> added to my branch. Upon commit, a number of files are added but then the
> system hangs. The mouse and all processes on my ubuntu 11.10 slow down.
> The first time was from the command line. I had to Ctrl-c to break the
> process.
> Then i was stuck with a lock on some files in dirstate that prevented me
> from doing anything.
>
> A complete reboot (restart wasn't sufficient) allowed me to bzr break-
> lock the process. (note that bzr info gave no indication of locked
> processes - not as suggested by the manual)
>
> [SOLVED - WORKAROUND] I then used the Bazaar - Explorer gui to add parts
> of the branch bit by bit.
> It turns out that I had some video animation files. These seemed to have
> caused the system hang.
> It's probably a bug that you aren't warned not to add files that are too
> large. And that a lock is created rather than rejecting the attempted
> commit.
>
> I would like to get involved with launchpad / bazaar. If someone
> takes this bug fix on, I'd like to ride shotgun and see how they fix
> it. I could do unit testing afterwards. Then i'd be on the path to
> being able to contribute myself. <email address hidden>
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: bzr 2.4.1-1ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> BzrDebugFlags: set()
> BzrVersion: 2.4.1
> CommandLine:
> ['/usr/bin/bzr',
> 'qsubprocess',
> '--bencode',
> '@/tmp/QBzr/qsubprocess/tmpk4lBp6']
> CrashDb: bzr
> Date: Wed Nov 23 08:55:27 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/bzr
> FileSystemEncoding: UTF-8
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110427.1)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
> Locale: en_US.UTF-8
> PackageArchitecture: all
> Platform: Linux-3.0.0-12-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-11.10-oneiric
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/bzr qsubprocess --bencode
> @/tmp/QBzr/qsubprocess/tmpk4lBp6
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonVersion: 2.7.2
> SourcePackage: bzr
> Title: bzr crashed with OverflowError in _create_z_content_from_chunks():
> size does not fit in an int
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-11 (11 days ago)
> UserEncoding: UTF-8
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