From b525272c5a7ff62b53c2c05034943acf8a3ff541 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "samuel.hym+bugs@a85e9c44dc6369ad6b12e8e6a3896ad34f7df4a3" Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 10:01:00 +0000 Subject: Report bug due to broken createSymbolicLink --- ...teSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_on_createSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn (limited to 'doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_on_createSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_on_createSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_on_createSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..55d779c60 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_on_createSymbolicLink___40__but_ln_-s_works__41__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +### Please describe the problem. + +`git-annex importfeed` fails to import some feed with the error `createSymbolicLink: invalid argument (File name too long)` in a case in which `ln -s` works. The item of the feed is not added, and the importing aborts at this entry. + +This is a regression: some entries that trigger the problem where imported just fine three months ago. + +This looks suspiciously like [this bug](20151116_tests_fail_on_OS_X). + + +### What steps will reproduce the problem? + +In a freshly `git init`-ed and `git-annex init`-ed repo: + +[[!format sh """ +$ git-annex importfeed --relaxed http://www.rtve.es/api/programas/1938/audios.rss +(checking known urls...) importfeed http://www.rtve.es/api/programas/1938/audios.rss +/tmp/feed1907 100%[================================================================>] 91,96K 31,4KB/s en 2,9s +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___La_guerra__un_recorrido_por_la_historia_de_la_peor_lacra_de_la_Humanidad___05_1215.mp3 ok +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___El_proceso_de_Burgos._El_juicio_contra_ETA_que_arrinconó_al_Franquismo___28_11_15.mp3 ok +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___Carmen_Martín_Gaite__la_escritura__como_afición_y_refugio___21_11_15.mp3 ok +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___El_crimen_del_Expreso_de_Andalucía___14_11_15.mp3 ok +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___La_Belle_Époque._La_Europa_que_bailaba_al_borde_del_abismo___07_11_15.mp3 ok +addurl Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___Cruz_Roja_Española._Siglo_y_medio_de_labor_humanitaria__de_los_heridos_de_guerra_a_los_excluidos_de_la_crisis___31_10_15.mp3 +git-annex: ../.git/annex/objects/F7/x3/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-cb7157debded21ea4ab1c330aaa54b42/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-cb7157debded21ea4ab1c330aaa54b42: createSymbolicLink: invalid argument (File name too long) +failed +(recording state in git...) +git-annex: importfeed: 1 failed +"""]] + +Just to make sure, I checked that the link can be created: + +[[!format sh """ +$ ln -s '../.git/annex/objects/F7/x3/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-cb7157debded21ea4ab1c330aaa54b42/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-cb7157debded21ea4ab1c330aaa54b42' Documentos_RNE/Documentos_RNE___Cruz_Roja_Española._Siglo_y_medio_de_labor_humanitaria__de_los_heridos_de_guerra_a_los_excluidos_de_la_crisis___31_10_15.mp3 +"""]] + +I also checked in ghci that System.Posix.Files.createSymbolicLink succeeds in creating the same link. +(But I didn’t compile git-annex myself, so I’m not sure that the version of the lib used in the debian package is the same as the one I checked; and I’m not sure whether git-annex uses exactly that function or another with the same name, by the way). + + +### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? + +Debian amd64 unstable package 5.20151116-1. +(I also tried version i386, with the same result). + + +### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders) + +That’s just a little hiccup in, up to now, various months of merry use! ;-) -- cgit v1.2.3