As explained in http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue2255
, that bug is triggered by lots of http requests, and that only happens when there is a certain number of new remote changes. Could you try the following patch? http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/file1106/issue2255fix-basicauth.diff Regards, Wagner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org