Index: tools/config.py
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--- tools/config.py	(revision 89c09ae14503535d15105952883128c8b6a6d0fe)
+++ tools/config.py	(revision 7b76744e5db631316a1ed8531fb669a8b6e91dd8)
@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@
 	
 	sys.stderr.write("Fetching current revision identifier ... ")
-	version = subprocess.Popen(['bzr', 'version-info', '--custom', '--template={clean}:{revno}:{revision_id}'], stdout = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].split(':')
-	sys.stderr.write("OK\n")
+	
+	try:
+		version = subprocess.Popen(['bzr', 'version-info', '--custom', '--template={clean}:{revno}:{revision_id}'], stdout = subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].split(':')
+		sys.stderr.write("ok\n")
+	except:
+		version = [1, "unknown", "unknown"]
+		sys.stderr.write("failed\n")
 	
 	if (len(version) == 3):