Thanks Ian,

I tried deleting the repository as you suggested, but then the push error changed to
/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’

from 

/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’
(the configjar.git was somehow recreated here)

I then tried deleting both cactusjar.git and configjar.git, but the same thing happened.

I then tried removing Formaline from the thornlist and it ran OK.  I am not sure if I will need the repositories?

Regards

Guy

On 7 Feb 2017, at 7:22 pm, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder@aei.mpg.de> wrote:


On 7 Feb 2017, at 04:16, Guy <guy.pitman@bigpond.com> wrote:

Thanks Ian,

I did a sim purge static_tov and tried rebuilding with ./simfactory/bin/sim build --mdbkey make 'make -j2' --thornlist=kranc.th (I needed to add a couple more thorns into kranc.th after submitting and getting error messages) but now I get an error

Formaline: Pushing to master git repository...
Formaline: ERROR during: Pushing to master git repository
Pushing to /Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/config-sim-Guy-Pitman.local-Users-Guy-Documents-EinsteinToolkit-Cactus': is at ca3fd643c45d8b1a29e9cbace4d149036b6534a3 but expected 883ab226b3bd16363cdf557c0752a9d97ccfb396
To /Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git
 = [up to date]      master -> master
 ! [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)
error: failed to push some refs to '/Users/Guy/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/cactusjar.git'


I have googled the git errors, but nothing seems to help- can I reinitialise the repositories some how to get over this error?

Hi,

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.

A git expert could probably do some forensics and recover the repository, but I suggest to just delete it:

rm -rf cactusjar.git

and try to build again.

If that doesn't work, you can remove Formaline from your thornlist and rebuild with

./simfactory/bin/sim build --mdbkey make 'make -j2' --thornlist=kranc.th