Mercurial (HG) version capability with Bamboo
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
Mercurial builds fail with the following error:
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INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/07/27 16:30:26 | 2012-07-27 16:30:26,787 ERROR [AtlassianEvent::0-BAM::EVENTS:pool-1-thread-3] [ChainExecutionManagerImpl] Plan 'RRR-BBBBB2' could not be started
INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/07/27 16:30:26 | java.lang.RuntimeException: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: Mercurial not found. Is Mercurial Executable capability properly set in configuration?
INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/07/27 16:30:26 | at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:119)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/07/27 16:30:26 | at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.runTask(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:79)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2012/07/27 16:30:26 | at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:174)
Cause
The Mercurial executable version is not compatible with Bamboo.
Resolution
Ensure that Bamboo is using a correct version of HG executable as per the documentation. Please use Mercurial 2.1.1 or later. Mercurial 2.1 has a bug that makes it incompatible with Bamboo.
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