<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Ian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried deleting the repository as you suggested, but then the push error changed to</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/usr/local/bin/git --git-dir='/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git/.git' push -v -f --all '/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/../CactusSourceJar.git’</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">from </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/usr/local/bin/git --git-dir='/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/configs/sim/configjar.git/.git' push -v -f --all '/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git’</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">(the configjar.git was somehow recreated here)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I then tried deleting both cactusjar.git and configjar.git, but the same thing happened.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I then tried removing Formaline from the thornlist and it ran OK. I am not sure if I will need the repositories?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Regards</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Guy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Feb 2017, at 7:22 pm, Ian Hinder <<a href="mailto:ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de" class="">ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On 7 Feb 2017, at 04:16, Guy <<a href="mailto:guy.pitman@bigpond.com" class="">guy.pitman@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks Ian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did a sim purge static_tov and tried rebuilding with <span class="" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">./simfactory/bin/sim build --mdbkey make 'make -j2' --thornlist=</span><font face="Menlo" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://kranc.th/" class="">kranc.th</a></span></font> (I needed to add a couple more thorns into<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://kranc.th/" class="">kranc.th</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>after submitting and getting error messages) but now I get an error</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Formaline: Pushing to master git repository...</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Formaline: ERROR during: Pushing to master git repository</span></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Pushing to /Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/config-sim-Guy-Pitman.local-Users-Guy-Documents-EinsteinToolkit-Cactus': is at ca3fd643c45d8b1a29e9cbace4d149036b6534a3 but expected 883ab226b3bd16363cdf557c0752a9d97ccfb396</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">To /Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> = [up to date] master -> master</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> ! [remote rejected] config-sim-Guy-Pitman.local-Users-Guy-Documents-EinsteinToolkit-Cactus -> config-sim-Guy-Pitman.local-Users-Guy-Documents-EinsteinToolkit-Cactus (failed to update ref)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">error: failed to push some refs to '/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git'</span></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">I have googled the git errors, but nothing seems to help- can I reinitialise the repositories some how to get over this error?</span></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It sounds like something went wrong with the git repository that stores the source code for all builds of Cactus (in case you want to go back later and see what code was used to build a given simulation executable). It's possible that a build was interrupted at a particularly bad time, so that the git repository became inconsistent. I have never seen this error before, however.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A git expert could probably do some forensics and recover the repository, but I suggest to just delete it:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">rm -rf cactusjar.git</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and try to build again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If that doesn't work, you can remove Formaline from your thornlist and rebuild with</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">./simfactory/bin/sim build --mdbkey make 'make -j2' --thornlist=<a href="http://kranc.th/" class="">kranc.th</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">-- </div><div class="">Ian Hinder</div><div class=""><a href="http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin" class="">http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>