as of recent times, some git rebase operations fail unexpectedly with an error: "cannot create .git/index.lock: file exists". an investigation session was something like the following: $ ls -l .git the index.lock file is not in the shown list. $ ls -l .git/index.lock the file is listed! it's a regular file, its size is ~60KiB. $ cat .git/index.lock some file content is shown. $ mv .git/index.lock .git/someplace moving fails with: index.lock: file does not exist. $ ee .git/index.lock some file content is shown, which i edit and save. then the .git/index.lock file really disappears (cat, direct ls, ee, mv, etc. do not find the file), and the content i put in the .git/index.lock file via ee is now in .git/index.
H$X!!!!!111 i still have some git rebase operations (which are notably disk-active) fail from time to time with "impossible" reasons (for example: something like "cherry picking failed", or something like "cannot move git-rebase-new to git-rebase-todo: file does not exist"). i'd note that the hard drive is kind of old (>7 years), and i recently had the power cut during port build operations twice, although the (UFS) filesystem is fsck-clean. has anyone experienced anything like this? what is the possibility of a filesystem/kernel bug or fsck bug? _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
