Bug 423109 – gitolite says "remote: find: `./lost+found': Permission denied"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Sebastian Pipping 2012-06-23 11:30:25 UTC]

This is what I see:

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# git push overlays-gentoo-org master
Host key fingerprint is 90:b8:da:ae:f6:e0:d5:8f:07:71:01:f4:38:72:ab:95
+--[ECDSA  256]---+
|     .o.         |
|     . +.        |
|    o * ..       |
|     +.=.        |
|    . EoS        |
|   o +.          |
|  o + ..         |
| ..+   o.        |
| .ooo ...        |
+-----------------+

Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 1.09 KiB, done.
Total 7 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: creating user/lootr...
remote: Initialized empty Git repository in /var/gitroot/user/lootr.git/
remote: find: `./lost+found': Permission denied
To git+ssh://[e-mail]/gitolite-admin.git
   9be66bf..f5d89d4  master -> master
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Needs someone with infra access to fix, to my understanding.

Thanks!

[Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2012-06-23 11:40:48 UTC]

You were creating a repo, yes?

Did it work?

-A

[Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping 2012-06-23 11:43:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You were creating a repo, yes?
> 
> Did it work?

It did, yes.  Should have said that, agreed :-)

[Comment 3 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2012-06-23 11:58:11 UTC]

I deleted lost+found, but really we should modify the script to omit it.

-A

[Comment 4 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) 2012-06-27 15:05:10 UTC]

which script is it? I can't find it

[Comment 5 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2012-06-27 18:02:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> which script is it? I can't find it

gitolite

[Comment 6 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2012-08-16 19:32:14 UTC]

Well.. this has been "fixed" by removing the lost+found dir although I don't think we'll add a ignore for it.