[Buildbot-devel] fatal: index file smaller than expected

[Tom Prince]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:45:14 -0500, Chris Kees <cekees at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting some errors in my buildbot.steps.source.git.Git step. If
> I'm reading the log properly get is exiting with an error in 'git
> clean -f -d -x' with 'fatal: index file smaller than expected'.  It
> only happens on one HPC machine where the build dir is on a Lustre
> file system, and it seems to happen every other update.

I don't think there is anything that buildbot does that should cause
that behavior. The only way that buildbot interacts with anything in
`.git' is via the git command. So I would have to guess that either your
filesystem is behaving strangely, or something in your build (or some
other program) is doing something with `.git'.

  Tom