Comment 4 for bug 153749

In the middle of bzr returning from a 'bzr status" my computer locked up. Once I rebooted I started to get this error. Now "bzr status" and many other commands give this same error.

Here is the entire error message:
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bzr: ERROR: exceptions.MemoryError:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 806, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 762, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 772, in ignore_pipe
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 189, in run
    to_file=self.outf, short=short, versioned=versioned)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/status.py", line 114, in show_tree_status
    want_unversioned=want_unversioned)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/tree.py", line 93, in changes_from
    want_unversioned=want_unversioned,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 127, in read_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/tree.py", line 707, in compare
    want_unversioned=want_unversioned)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/delta.py", line 217, in _compare_trees
    want_unversioned=want_unversioned):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py", line 1793, in _iter_changes
    state._read_dirblocks_if_needed()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/dirstate.py", line 1877, in _read_dirblocks_if_needed
    _read_dirblocks(self)
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 694, in _dirstate_helpers_c._read_dirblocks_c
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 661, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader._parse_dirblocks
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 608, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader._get_entry
  File "_dirstate_helpers_c.pyx", line 502, in _dirstate_helpers_c.Reader.get_next_str
MemoryError

bzr 1.1.0 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'status']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.1.0]
  gtk /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk [0.93.0]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  multiparent /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/multiparent.pyc [unknown]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.
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