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mpen
mpen

Reputation: 282775

"abort: no suitable response from remote hg!"

I've just created a new Mercurial repo on my private server, but I can't push to it, and I can't figure out why.

Here's what I see:

 % hg push
pushing to ssh://[email protected]//var/repos/myrepo
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

On the server, the repo exists, and I can clone it locally:

root@mydomain:/tmp# hg clone /var/repos/myrepo repoclone
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

I created the repo with hg init myrepo. It's owned by hg:hg, mod 755.

My workstation and server are both running

Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 4.4.1)

What else might be wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1576

Answers (1)

mpen
mpen

Reputation: 282775

Discovered you can add --debug to hg push.

 % hg --debug push
pushing to ssh://[email protected]//var/repos/myrepo
running ssh '[email protected]' 'hg -R /var/repos/myrepo serve --stdio'
sending hello command
sending between command
remote: This account is currently not available.
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

I guess the server user must have a shell. 

nano /etc/passwd

Changed

hg:x:999:1002:Mercurial repo owner:/home/hg:/usr/sbin/nologin

to

hg:x:999:1002:Mercurial repo owner:/home/hg:/bin/bash

And now it pushes!

Upvotes: 2

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