Re: [BUG] git clean not working on FreeBSD/NFS

From: Henrik Grubbström <grubba@grubba.org>
Date: Jun 17, 2010, 15:18 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20100617T170956-287@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C1A30A3.9080708@gmail.com>

Török Edwin <edwintorok <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
> 
> I am running git 1.7.1 on a FreeBSD 8 box which has its home dir mounted
> via NFS (I guess the NFS server is a Linux box).
> When running 'git clean -x -f -d' it fails to remove some directories:
> warning: failed to remove 'libclamav/.deps/'
> warning: failed to remove 'libclamav/.libs/'
> warning: failed to remove 'libclamav/c++/.deps/'
> warning: failed to remove 'libclamav/c++/.libs/'
> warning: failed to remove 'libclamav/c++/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/Output/'
> 
> This causes buildbot managed builds to fail every 2nd time.

Sounds like the classic nfs problem with references to open deleted files. If you look closer at the failing directories, I bet that you'll find files with names like ".nfsDEAD".

You can use eg lsof to find the process that holds the open file reference:

  $ lsof tmp/.nfs536B 
  COMMAND   PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
  pike    29705 grubba    8w  VREG  285,4        0 10977399 tmp/.nfs536B

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