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diff --git a/doc/forum/possible_gpg_issue/comment_3_d505b6e5050d2afa7c8543e21918193d._comment b/doc/forum/possible_gpg_issue/comment_3_d505b6e5050d2afa7c8543e21918193d._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ade7846db --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/possible_gpg_issue/comment_3_d505b6e5050d2afa7c8543e21918193d._comment @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 3""" + date="2014-12-01T21:36:40Z" + content=""" +The relevant error message seems to be this: + + hClose: does not exist (Host is down) + +Which doesn't point at gpg being the problem to me. git-annex is trying to +close a file after writing it, and that's failing with EHOSTDOWN. Not a usual +error code, but then you're using a network filesystem, which has many unusual +failure modes. + +The next step would probably be to strace git-annex to see what syscall +is failing. Looks like it might be close(2), but then again hClose might be +doing something else first. + +It's possible that this has something to do with the SMB share not supporting +some POSIX filesystem feature that git-annex uses. Lack of support for fcntl +locking is a problem with NFS, dunno about SMB. + +What would probably work better would be to set up a +[[directory special remote|special_remotes/directory]] on the SMB share. +That requires a lot less from the filesystem than a full-fledged git remote +does. + +(Two parts of what you said don't make sense to me BTS. I see no evidence of it hanging in the transcript, so am unclear why +you said it was hanging, as opposed to gracefully failing. And, you said the SMB remote was not configured to use encryption, but it's clearly +encrypted in the transcript.) +"""]] |