Non-Working Mercurial after Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Install

Augie Fackler durin42 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 18:35:36 UTC 2011


On Aug 21, 2011 11:07 AM, "Kime H. Smith, Jr." <khsmith at mediakinematics.com>
wrote:
>
> Augie:
>
> I commented out a line in the [paths] section of the rc file and the
command line behavior of "hg" seems to be restored.  Since I haven't made
any changes to the file in quite some time, it must be the newer version of
HG that was sensitive to the "bad" path entry.
>
> Problem resolved!
>
> Thanks again for your help.

What was the offending line? Or something similar, so we can figure out why
it broke things so badly.

>
> Best,
> Kime
>
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2011, at 9:42 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
> > On Aug 20, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Kime H. Smith, Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >> Mads:
> >>
> >> Camelot:~ khsmith$ hg --traceback
> >> abort: file:// URLs can only refer to localhost
> >> Camelot:~ khsmith$
> >>
> >> This is all I got ….
> >
> > Try:
> > $ HGRCPATH=/dev/null hg version --traceback
> >
> > (I'm shooting blind here, just trying to rule out weird config issues
breaking things.)
> >
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Kime
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> >>
> >>> Kime H. Smith, Jr. wrote, On 08/21/2011 02:36 AM:
> >>>> Augie, et al:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Deleted all Python libraries per your instructions, and the 2 hg
executables.
> >>>> 2.(Extraneous) Installed Mac OS X 10.7.1 update.
> >>>> 3. Then re-ran the installer from selenic.com -- no joy. Still got
"abort: file:// URLs can only refer to localhost" when running "hg"…..
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the cause of this error? Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Please try to add --traceback when running Mercurial and show us this
part of you command line session, with both the hg command and the error
message you get.
> >>>
> >>> /Mads
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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