Server is too old for streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade the server to Bazaar 1.2 to avoid this)

This also happens for me, and I'm not sure why. Any clues?

I believe this has something to do with changes with the bzr smart server in 1.6, which triggers this warning in older versions.
What version of bazaar are you guys running?

This what happens when a Bazaar 1.5 client talks to a Bazaar 1.6 server. The workaround is to upgrade your client to Bazaar 1.6 — we aren't going to downgrade the version of Bazaar on Launchpad.

The Bazaar team might want to patch the 1.5 release to improve the error message or even fix the bug.

I'm running 1.3.1 (from the ubuntu hardy repos). So it may be not only 1.5 client but versions before as well.

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 02:27 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> This what happens when a Bazaar 1.5 client talks to a Bazaar 1.6 server.
> The workaround is to upgrade your client to Bazaar 1.6 — we aren't going
> to downgrade the version of Bazaar on Launchpad.
>
> The Bazaar team might want to patch the 1.5 release to improve the error
> message or even fix the bug.

Its not a bug per se: bzr 1.5 tries to use a streaming method that helps
pull; we removed that in 1.6 for a number of reasons; most prominently
that it generated some very high peak memory usage, and that the API did
not fit with the changes needed for stacking.

-Rob
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Right. I had meant to put 'bug' in quotes. The 'bug', AIUI, is that Bazaar issues a poorly-worded warning: the server is not too old, changing the server to version 1.2 would not be an 'upgrade' and in any case is not desirable.

I get this error when a Mac OS X Bzr 1.5 talks to a 1.6.1 running a bzr co bzr+ssh:// as well.

So how about this?

"Server does not support streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade both client and server to 1.6 or later to avoid this.)"

Upgrading both fixed the problem.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 20:53, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:

> So how about this?
>
> "Server does not support streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade both
> client and server to 1.6 or later to avoid this.)"
>
> --
> Server is too old for streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade the server to
> Bazaar 1.2 to avoid this)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260335
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

I agree this is a bad message, but it's no longer present post 1.5 and I don't think it's worth doing a backport just to fix the message.

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:53:11AM -0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> "Server does not support streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade both
> client and server to 1.6 or later to avoid this.)"

This sounds great, but would we roll out retroactive versions with this
fix?
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> This sounds great, but would we roll out retroactive versions with this fix?

I was confused by a similar but different message still in the tree. I think we should just live with this message in 1.5, and explain to people they should upgrade.