hg clone using mercurial throws "getaddrinfo failed" error (windows 7)

Question

I have created a public repository on bit bucket website. I can run the clone command from outside the office network (LAN).

But it is not working inside the office network. I am suspecting it is to do with firewall or proxy settings. I can access the URL from browser window (IE9/Chrome).

Please help in fixing this problem. Thanks.

Command:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/gbsandeep/test2

abort: error: getaddrinfo failed

PS: I went through other posts but it did not help.

Solution 1

Sounds like you might need to tell Mercurial what your proxy settings are. First hit for "mercurial proxy":

http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/05/13/mercurial-pulling-from-behind-a-proxy/

If you need to figure out what settings to use, you should probably look at what your IE settings are, e.g. by going to the Internet Properties | Connections | LAN Settings dialog.

Solution 2

If you find yourself on this page because you've hit a getaddr error when using the hg-git plugin with a username, it is likely that you've hit the Fails with username in URL (getaddreinfo failed) bug.

Thus:

$ hg clone https://foo@stash/
abort: error: getaddrinfo failed
$ hg clone https://stash/
http authorization required for http://stash.....
realm: Atlassian Stash
user: ...

(Doesn't solve the original user's issue, but can be a cause of the same symptoms).

Solution 3

Just remove the http_proxy environment variable. (worked for me, after of 5 hours of headache).

Solution 4

Pls check whether you can access the repository directly first. e.g from web browser

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Comments

[Sandeep G B]

Thanks jjlin. It was a direct command. I am feeling dumb now :)

[Jason D]

It also gives you this error if you get the URL to clone from wrong, in my case I had mis-spelled the domain name.

[gnysek]

Who may thought that having username in repo name will fail in case of hg-git... That's definitely a proper solution.

[Sushil Kumar]

It worked when I removed the username from URL ssh://[email protected]/username/reponame.git Removing the first username helped fix the error ssh://bitbucket.org/username/reponame.git