"remote server did not return a token" assertion error

Benjamin Heitmann <email address hidden> reports:

Hello, as requested by the error dump, I forward the error message to
this mailing list.

I was trying to commit for the first time to a repository using the
dirstate-tags format.

I am using bzr on a mac. Had it compiled form source via fink, but
had to update to 0.92 because of the new branch format.

Here is the whole error message.

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chapultepec:~/Documents/research/publications/eswc2008-survey benjamin
$ bzr commit -m "finished the survey part. its up to page 6 now, with
slimmed black and white pictures"
Password:
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AssertionError: Remote server did not return a
token!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
802, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
758, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line
492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line
2315, in run
    author=author)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line
165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/workingtree_4.py",
line 244, in commit
    result = WorkingTree3.commit(self, message, revprops, *args,
**kwargs)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line
165, in write_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/mutabletree.py", line
187, in commit
    revprops=revprops, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 281,
in commit
    self._check_bound_branch()
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commit.py", line 471,
in _check_bound_branch
    self.master_branch.lock_write()
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/remote.py", line 1054, in lock_write
    token=self._repo_lock_token)
  File "/sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/remote.py", line 437, in lock_write
    assert self._lock_token, 'Remote server did not return a token!'
AssertionError: Remote server did not return a token!

bzr 0.92.0 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (darwin)
arguments: ['/sw/bin/bzr', 'commit', '-m', 'finished the survey part.
its up to page 6 now, with slimmed black and white pictures']
encoding: 'US-ASCII', fsenc: 'utf-8', lang: None
plugins:
  launchpad /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/
plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  multiparent /sw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/
plugins/multiparent.pyc [unknown]

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