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Re: git add / update-cache --add fails.

From
RHRhys Hardwick <rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk>
Date
Apr 26, 2005, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID
<200504260726.04908.rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0504251741430.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

That may be true! I changed to linux full time only about 8 months ago, but haven't looked back.

Ok strace gave me:
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rhys@metatron:~/repo/learning.repo$ strace update-cache --add w1d4p1.c
execve("/home/rhys/bin/update-cache", ["update-cache", "--add", "w1d4p1.c"], 
[/*
 37 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="metatron", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x8050000
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0
xb7fe9000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=78204, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 78204, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fd5000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)    = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\27"..., 512) = 
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=67468, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 70528, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fc3000
old_mmap(0xb7fd4000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x100
00) = 0xb7fd4000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\205\0"..., 512) = 
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=198576, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0
xb7fc2000
old_mmap(NULL, 199344, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f91000
old_mmap(0xb7fbf000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x2e
000) = 0xb7fbf000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)    = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`Z\1\000"..., 512) = 
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1254468, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1264780, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e5c000
old_mmap(0xb7f86000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x12
9000) = 0xb7f86000
old_mmap(0xb7f8f000, 7308, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANONY
MOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f8f000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\300\2"..., 512) = 
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1029672, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1043608, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d5d000
old_mmap(0xb7e47000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0xea
000) = 0xb7e47000
old_mmap(0xb7e59000, 11416, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANON
YMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e59000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/lib/tls/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320\32"..., 512) = 
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9872, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 8632, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d5a000
old_mmap(0xb7d5c000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x200
0) = 0xb7d5c000
close(3)                                = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0xb7d59000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7d592a0, limit:1048575, 
seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, 
seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0xb7fd5000, 78204)               = 0
open(".git/index.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 3
access(".git/objects", X_OK)            = 0
open(".git/index", O_RDONLY)            = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=176, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 176, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0xb7fe8000
close(4)                                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x8050000
brk(0x8071000)                          = 0x8071000
brk(0)                                  = 0x8071000
open("w1d4p1.c", O_RDONLY)              = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
write(2, "fatal: ", 7fatal: )                  = 7
write(2, "Unable to add w1d4p1.c to databa"..., 34Unable to add w1d4p1.c to 
database) = 34
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
unlink(".git/index.lock")               = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?
====
ltrace update-cache --add xxxx gave
====

rhys@metatron:~/repo/learning.repo$ ltrace update-cache --add w1d4p1.c __libc_start_main(0x8049680, 3, 0xbffff854, 0x804ad60, 0x804adc0 <unfinished ...> getenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE") = NULL snprintf(".git/index.lock", 4097, "%s.lock", ".git/index") = 15 open(".git/index.lock", 194, 0600) = 3 __cxa_atexit(0x8049660, 0, 0, 0xb7f8de80, 0xbffff7c8) = 0 __errno_location() = 0xb7d59280 getenv("SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY") = NULL access(".git/objects", 1) = 0 getenv("GIT_INDEX_FILE") = NULL open(".git/index", 0, 026777021220) = 4 __fxstat(3, 4, 0xbffff710) = 0 __errno_location() = 0xb7d59280 mmap(0, 176, 1, 2, 4) = 0xb7fe8000 close(4) = 0 SHA1_Init(0xbffff660, 0xb7e67bc8, 0xb7fc2290, 0x804870e, 96) = 1 SHA1_Update(0xbffff660, 0xb7fe8000, 156, 0x804870e, 96) = 1 SHA1_Final(0xbffff640, 0xbffff660, 156, 0x804870e, 96) = 1 calloc(27, 4) = 0x8050008 open("w1d4p1.c", 0, 044653) = -1 __errno_location() = 0xb7d59280 fputs("fatal: ", 0xb7f86f60fatal: ) = 1 vfprintf(0xb7f86f60, "Unable to add %s to database", 0xbffff794Unable to add w1d4p1.c to database) = 34 fputc('\n', 0xb7f86f60 ) = 10 exit(1 <unfinished ...> unlink(".git/index.lock") = 0 +++ exited (status 1) +++

====

More information: this seems to be happening with all my local repositories. I can remove files from the cache, and commit fine, but not add files.

Rhys
On Tuesday 26 Apr 2005 01:47, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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Message 6 of 14 in “git add / update-cache --add fails.”
  1. Rhys HardwickApr 25, 2005
  2. Rhys HardwickApr 25, 2005
  3. Rhys HardwickApr 25, 2005
  4. Chris WedgwoodApr 25, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 26, 2005
  6. Rhys HardwickApr 26, 2005
  7. Herbert XuApr 27, 2005
  8. Ed L CashinApr 27, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 27, 2005
  10. Ed L CashinApr 27, 2005
  11. Paul JacksonApr 28, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 28, 2005
  13. Paul JacksonApr 28, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2005

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