Filipe, This has fixed the os.chmod error, I had rebuild ape; however, i had not rebuilt python. I am now running into this traceback even though the .hg dir is being instantiated.
rator_gade% hg clone http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston real URL is http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/ destination directory: django-piston requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 161 changesets with 309 changes to 67 files updating working directory ** unknown exception encountered, details follow ** report bug details to http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/ ** or mercur...@selenic.com ** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3) ** Extensions loaded: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/hg", line 27, in <module> mercurial.dispatch.run() File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 16, in run sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:])) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 27, in dispatch return _runcatch(u, args) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 43, in _runcatch return _dispatch(ui, args) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 449, in _dispatch return runcommand(lui, repo, cmd, fullargs, ui, options, d) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 317, in runcommand ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 501, in _runcommand return checkargs() File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 454, in checkargs return cmdfunc() File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 448, in <lambda> d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/util.py", line 370, in check return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/commands.py", line 635, in clone update=not opts.get('noupdate')) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/hg.py", line 313, in clone _update(dest_repo, uprev) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/hg.py", line 331, in update stats = _merge.update(repo, node, False, False, None) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/merge.py", line 456, in update _checkunknown(wc, p2) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/merge.py", line 77, in _checkunknown for f in wctx.unknown(): File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/context.py", line 583, in unknown def unknown(self): return self._status[4] File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/util.py", line 118, in __get__ result = self.func(obj) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/context.py", line 553, in _status return self._repo.status(unknown=True) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1016, in status s = self.dirstate.status(match, listignored, listclean, listunknown) File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dirstate.py", line 569, in status for fn, st in self.walk(match, listunknown, listignored).iteritems(): File "/sys/python/lib/python2.5/mercurial/dirstate.py", line 519, in walk entries = listdir(join(nd), stat=True, skip=skip) TypeError: 'skip' is an invalid keyword argument for this function rator_gade% note: i picked this hg repo because it was super small :P nothing of interest.... i'll play with it some more.. not exactly sure what this is yet thanks! +=jt