From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Bock Subject: Re: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*' Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:25 -0600 Message-ID: <1213667245.14393.3.camel@localhost> References: <1213635227.17814.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 17 03:58:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K8QSp-0006L4-Fs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:58:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbYFQB5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753175AbYFQB5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:32 -0400 Received: from proofpoint3.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.28]:38855 "EHLO proofpoint3.lanl.gov" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752739AbYFQB5b (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:57:31 -0400 Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by proofpoint3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5H1ljnU002937 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:45 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C00E1A8C4B0 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:45 -0600 (MDT) X-CTN-5-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay2.lanl.gov Received: from [128.165.249.1] (dsl-usr-1.lanl.gov [128.165.249.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1E91A8C49B for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:38 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: <1213635227.17814.6.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.7161:2.4.4,1.2.40,4.0.164 definitions=2008-06-17_01:2008-06-16,2008-06-17,2008-06-16 signatures=0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I realized that I recently upgraded from version 1.5.3.7 to 1.5.4.5. I double checked and downgraded again, and yes, I don't have any problems running "git gc" with the older version, but I get the below error message with the newer version of git. nick On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:53 -0600, Nicolas Bock wrote: > Hello list, > > when running "git gc" I get the following error message as of late: > > $ git gc > error: cannot lock ref 'refs/remotes/origin/*' > error: failed to run reflog > > When I rsync the directory tree to another machine, I can run "git gc" > without any error messages. What exactly does this error mean? Why would > locking fail? > > Thanks already, > > nick > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html