bzr+ssh cannot init in the server's root directory, gives "parent directory does not exist"

Hi, thanks for the report.

This does seem to be a bug.

It would help if you can paste the traceback from bzr.log, whose location is shown by 'bzr version'.

This might be similar to bug 394227, but apparently not the same because that one caused a hang.

I attached the log file :)

Thanks for the log file. Unfortunately it's not got very much helpful information.

How did you install bzr? From source, or from an installer package?

I used the installer "bzr-setup-1.17-2.exe".

Shall I try building Bazaar from source or using a different installer?

I just have uninstalled Bazaar 1.17 and have installed version 1.18 from "bzr-1.18-1-setup.exe". SFTP still works and bzr+ssh still doesn't work.

However, if I execute "bzr init bzr+ssh://localhost/" now, I get a new error message:
bash: bzr: command not found
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.

Maybe I only have to set a certain environment variable?

I attached a new log file.

Hm, after adding the path to Bazaar (1.18) to the .bashrc of my cygwin profile (export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Programme/Bazaar), I get the same error as in Bazaar 1.17. I don't know why I didn't have to modifiy the cygwin PATH environment variable with Bazaar 1.17.

I attached the new log file which is practically identical to the first log file I posted.

Sorry for posting so much but finally I got bzr+ssh to work (with Bazaar 1.18).

The problem is that bzr+ssh://, in contrast to sftp://, doesn't work with the root directory. I've already testet bzr+ssh with a subdirectory before but probably when I did that the Copssh / Openssh configuration wasn't correct (and I mistakenly assumed bzr+ssh didn't work with subdirectories either).

To sum it up:
works: bzr init sftp://localhost
DOESN'T work: bzr init bzr+ssh://localhost
works: bzr init sftp://localhost/bla
WORKS: bzr init bzr+ssh://localhost/bla

I hope this narrows the problem down so it can be fixed.

Thanks for tracking it down, that will help fix it.

I think it would be a bit weird to want to init a repo in the root directory. We should handle it better but I don't see it as a very urgent bug. You probably want to say bzr+ssh://localhost/repos/ or something similar.

I also found that I have a similar issue and it is not because of the root folder. So far only SFTP from Windows to a Mac machine works, but bzr+ssh does not and yields the log message that is attached.

Archimedes Trajano: thanks for that log. Your issue appears to be a different problem to me (perhaps bzr is not installed on the server?), so please file a new bug report about that rather than commenting on 416710.