From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: git clone fails with: error: chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127145314.GE547@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A8C67A.6070101@cornell.edu>
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On Jan 27 08:30, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/27/2016 7:41 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >When I use "git clone foo bar" on a Linux host, it works as expected.
> >
> > git clone foo bar
> > Cloning into 'bar'...
> > done.
> >
> >When I use the same command on my Cygwin 64 installation, this used
> >to work, but does not work any more. I can fetch and otherwise use
> >Git in existing repos all right (have not noticed anything else
> >amiss), but the clone command fails like this:
> >
> >----
> >cd /cygdrive/c/base
> >git clone foo bar
> >Cloning into 'bar'...
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument
> >error: chmod on /cygdrive/c/base/bar/.git/config.lock failed: Invalid argument
> >fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
> >fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> >
> >Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> >and the repository exists.
> >----
> >
> >Directory `bar` exists neither before nor after the attempted cloning.
> >In the parent directory, manually creating a subdirectory works as
> >expected:
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/base> mkdir bar; ls -ld bar; rmdir bar
> > drwx------+ 1 username 123 0 Jan 27 13:13 bar
> >
> >The issue is not restricted to local cloning, the same messages are
> >printed when I attempt to clone from a remote host (from which I
> >can clone just fine from a Linux client).
> >
> >Searching the internet for "cygwin git error chmod on config.lock
> >failed: Invalid argument" gave not useful results.
> >
> >I first noticed the issue after having upgraded to Cygwin 2.4.0-1.
> >Juding from the directory creation times in `base`,
> >it looks like the last successful clone happened on 2015-07-28.
> >I do not know which version of Cygwin I used at that time,
> >I update roughly once a month.
> >
> >Today, I upgraded to 2.4.1-1, the issue persists.
> >
> >I tried downgrading git from 2.7 to 2.6 via the installer.
> >The issue persisted, so I rolled forward again, the issue persisted.
> >
> >How can I troubleshoot this further?
>
> There might be a problem with the default ACL on the directory
> /cygdrive/c/base. What does 'getfacl /cygdrive/c/base' show?
Also, what does the native windows icacls command print for that
directory? The setup of the ACL may give us a hint why git apparently
fails to create the bar subdir.
Thanks,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-27 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-27 16:34 Rainer Blome
2016-01-27 18:33 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-27 18:39 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-01-28 6:35 ` Christopher Cobb
2016-01-28 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-28 15:52 ` chmod failed: Invalid argument [was: git clone fails with: error: chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument] Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-28 16:06 ` git clone fails with: error: chmod on config.lock failed: Invalid argument Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-28 17:23 ` Aw: " Rainer Blome
2016-01-28 18:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-19 7:22 ` git clone fails with error " Tomas Jura
2016-04-19 7:57 ` Tomas Jura
2016-04-19 8:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-19 13:30 ` Tomas Jura
2016-04-19 14:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-20 14:06 ` Tomas Jura
2016-04-20 14:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-21 7:29 ` Tomas Jura
2016-04-21 7:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-28 14:33 ` git clone fails with: error: " Andrey Repin
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