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

Kime H. Smith, Jr. khsmith at mediakinematics.com
Mon Aug 22 00:36:58 UTC 2011


Augie:

In my case, the line looked like this:

lilliput = file://Volumes/Colossus_5/Library/WebServer

Hope this helps.

Best,
Kime



On Aug 21, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> 
> 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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