Why does bamboo try to find Mercurial at a Unix location instead of the specified Windows location?

Vicki Stanfield

I have a remote agent that is able to build my plan from the command line on the windows 7 box, but when I try to run it from bamboo, it tells me that it can't find Mercurial. I see it in the agent matrix. Mercurial version is 3.1.2. I see in the stack trace that it says /usr/bin/hg could not be started. hg on this windows box lives at c:\Program Files\TortoiseHg. I have added a variable to set system.hg.executable to c:\Program Files\TortoiseHG\hg.exe. I am not sure why it is looking for a unix path instead of the Windows path that I provide in the build plan configuration. 

Vicki 

rsperafico

Hello Vicki,

Thank you for your question.

Could you go to "Bamboo administration >> Build resources >> Agents >> <your agent> >> Capabilities" tab and please make sure Mercurial capability is pointing to the correct location, please (as you have mentioned C:\Program Files\TortoiseHG\hg.exe instead of /usr/bin/hg).

If you find this answer useful, I would kindly ask you to accept it so the same will be visible to others who might be facing the same issue you have inquired.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Kind regards,
Rafael P. Sperafico
Atlassian Support