Help getting Mercurial running on a Media Temple (gs)

Question

I've installed Mercurial per MT's knowledge base file here.

Working with it server side using ssh from my Mac works fine. I can initialize repositories and the like, but pulling from the server or pushing from my Mac produces an error I don't understand.

Here's what I get when call hg push from my local installation (hash marks represent my server number):

remote: Traceback (most recent call last):
remote:   File "/home/#####/users/.home/data/mercurial-1.5/hg", line 27, in ?
remote:     mercurial.dispatch.run()
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run
remote:     sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 21, in dispatch
remote:     u = _ui.ui()
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/ui.py", line 38, in __init__
remote:     for f in util.rcpath():
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/util.py", line 1200, in rcpath
remote:     _rcpath = os_rcpath()
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/util.py", line 1174, in os_rcpath
remote:     path = system_rcpath()
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/posix.py", line 41, in system_rcpath
remote:     path.extend(rcfiles(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) +
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/posix.py", line 30, in rcfiles
remote:     rcs.extend([os.path.join(rcdir, f)
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 75, in __getattribute__
remote:     self._load()
remote:   File "/nfs/c05/h01/mnt/#####/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 47, in _load
remote:     mod = _origimport(head, globals, locals)
remote: ImportError: No module named osutil
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

Mercurial on my Mac is configured as follows

[ui]
username = John Smith
editor = te -w
remotecmd = ~/data/mercurial-1.5/hg

My local single repo is configured as follows (hash marks represent my server number):

[paths]
default = ssh://mysite.com@s#####.gridserver.com/domains/mysite.com/html

Mercurial on the server is configured with a just a username:

[ui]
username = John Smith

The server .bash_profile is configured as follows (per the installation guide):

# Added this as suggested by the MediaTemple guide
export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH
export PATH=${HOME}/bin:$PATH

I understand this probably isn't a MediaTemple problem, but more likely an installation problem. I would really appreciate any assitance on this. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Your mercurial installation isn't complete, you didn't compile the osutil module (there should be a osutil.so somewhere).

Answer 2

@tonfa,

hgdebuginstall produced no errors, which is why the problem I was having was so weird.

Thanks to your response, I did some digging and found the module in ~/lib/python/mercurial, so I copied the osutil.so file over to my ~data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial directory and that was that... but then more and more modules couldn’t be found so I decided to copy the entire contents of one directory over to the other, like so:

$ rm -R ~/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial/*
$ cp -r ~/lib/python/mercurial/* ~/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial

Now, everything works fine. I don't understand why it seems that mercurial was installed in two directories, or why one directory (~/data/mercurial-1.5/mercurial) didn't get the same files as the other (~/lib/python/mercurial).

Anyway, this is the solution I came up with. If you (or anyone) can think of something more elegant, I'd be all ears, but as it is... this one works for me.

Thanks for your time.