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Windows: can't push to LaunchPad anymore with 1.8

Asked by Peter Golde

I had Bazaar 1.7 working fine on Windows Vista, and was able to push/pull/branch from LaunchPad after I finally figured out how to use Pageant for my SSH keys (should have been better documented, by the way).

This weekend I uninstalled 1.7 and installed 1.8, using the installer. Everything works great locally, but when I try to push to LaunchPad, I get the error:

bzr: ERROR: Don't know how to handle SSH connections. Please set BZR_SSH environment variable.

This didn't ever happen with 1.7. I am not sure how to proceed. I'm not even sure if downgrading back to 1.7 is safe after doing some local checkins in 1.8.

Any advice how to get SSH to LaunchPad working again in 1.8 much appreciated.

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Ronald Blaschke (rblasch) said : 		#1

On a Windows Command Prompt, could you try running "plink" and check if you're getting the help screen?

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Peter Golde (peter-golde) said : 		#2

No, I was not getting the plink help screen.

I then added "c:\Program Files\PuTTy" to my PATH, and plink works.

Doing a bzr push (after starting Pageant and loading my SSH key) now gives me this:

> bzr push
Using saved push location: bzr+ssh://<email address hidden>/~peter-golde/purple-pen/trunk/
The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you think it is.
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 1024 9d:38:3a:63:b1:d5:6f:c4:44:67:53:49:2e:ee:fc:89
Connection abandoned.
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: please check connectivity and permissions (and try -Dhpss if further diagnosis is required)

I then used PuTTY directly to attempt an SSH connection to bazaar.launchpad.net. This failed, but managed to cache the server's host key.

Then doing a "bzr push" worked.

So it is now working for me, but clearly the install and/or documentation for 1.8 on Windows needs work so this is more seamless.

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John A Meinel (jameinel) said : 		#3

So the 1.8-lite installer didn't have paramiko installed.

However I just uploaded a full version, which does have it.

Also, the 1.9rc1 installer also is complete, and the 1.9 final should be available by early next week.