Setting to need-eg.

@docwhat

Hooks stdout is now redirected to stderr. Can you try a recent mercurial (the
one from hardy backports should do it) on the server ?

It didn't work for me.  I patched against the version of mercurial that I have 
in Ubuntu.  I added a changegroup line like so:
changegroup = ls --help

This generates bogus stderr output.

I got, essentially, the same error.

Ciao!

The server.

On the server or the client?

Try the attached patch, which should redirect stderr to stdout.

Icantey:

Scary...that was exactly the rule I had (except for missing the >/dev/null part

In that case, is there a bug open already for having HG dealing intelligently 
with something like this?  Either by capturing the output and sending it over 
the line or saving out to a log and complaining to the client?

Actually, it probably isn't a good idea to pass the output back to the client, 
since it's running from a shell account and would allow an attacker to see/know 
more. about the remote system. :-/

Ciao!

Do you have a hook setup to automatically update on the server side?

If so you need to ensure it doesn't generate output.  Something like: 

[hooks]
incoming = hg update > /dev/null

pushing to ssh://gerf.org//hg/itsalltext/
searching for changes
** unknown exception encountered, details follow
** report bug details to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts
** or mercurial@selenic.com
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 0.9.5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 14, in <module>
    mercurial.dispatch.run()
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 20, in 
run
    sys.exit(dispatch(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 29, in 
dispatch
    return _runcatch(u, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 45, in 
_runcatch
    return _dispatch(ui, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 348, in 
_dispatch
    ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 401, in 
_runcommand
    return checkargs()
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 357, in 
checkargs
    return cmdfunc()
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py", line 340, in 
<lambda>
    d = lambda: func(ui, repo, *args, **cmdoptions)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/commands.py", line 2147, in 
push
    r = repo.push(other, opts['force'], revs=revs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1385, in 
push
    return self.push_unbundle(remote, force, revs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/localrepo.py", line 1465, in 
push_unbundle
    return remote.unbundle(cg, remote_heads, 'push')
  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mercurial/sshrepo.py", line 202, in 
unbundle
    l = int(self.pipei.readline())
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '8 files updated, 0 files 
merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved\n'
remote: adding changesets
remote: adding manifests
remote: adding file changes
remote: added 7 changesets with 13 changes to 8 files