[issue321] Mercurial not working on Win98 (No module named pwd)

[Lars Bjerregaard]

New submission from Lars Bjerregaard <lars at rubyglow.dk>:

Installed "2006-06-27: Mercurial 0.9-b73552a00b20 - Version 0.9 + fixes through
2006-06-26" from http://mercurial.berkwood.com/ (thanks Lee), on a Windows 98 SE
machine (don't ask).

Installation goes fine
hg init goes fine
hg add goes fine
hg commit crashes with the following:

P:\topaz>hg commit -m "Lige før Topaz nr. 15"
** unknown exception encountered, details follow
** report bug details to mercurial at selenic.com
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version unknown)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hg", line 12, in ?
  File "mercurial\commands.pyc", line 3249, in run
  File "mercurial\commands.pyc", line 3434, in dispatch
  File "mercurial\commands.pyc", line 3393, in <lambda>
  File "mercurial\commands.pyc", line 1038, in commit
  File "mercurial\localrepo.pyc", line 544, in commit
  File "mercurial\ui.pyc", line 199, in username
  File "getpass.pyc", line 101, in getuser
ImportError: No module named pwd
transaction abort!
rollback completed

No other errors or sideeffects.
Does hg/win not work on Win98? I would assume so since it does not indicate
supported versions on the page. If indeed it does _not_ support win98, but needs
NT+, please indicate so on the page and disregard this bug-entry.

Other info:
The repo was on a mapped P: drive, supplied by a Samba backend.

Otherwise, thanks for Mercurial, it's a wonderful tool, and I'm tracking it's
development keenly.

PS. Perhaps you should change the message "report bug details to
mercurial at selenic.com" to something like "please report bugs on
http://selenic.com/mercurial/bugs/". Thanks.

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messages: 1729
nosy: lab
priority: bug
status: unread
title: Mercurial not working on Win98 (No module named pwd)
topic: ui, windows

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