[darcs-users] strange failure

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Nov 3 12:48:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:20:09AM +0000, Wenzhi Liang wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I am trying to initialise a darcs tree and when I do 'darcs add -r
> bla' I got the following
> error:
> 
> Fail: takeLock /bla/darcs/lock in /bla: unsupported operation (Invalid
> cross-device link)

Are these really the actual paths? Did you perhaps leave out an underscore
in _darcs? Otherwise this is quite a confusing message...

> The operation is on an NFS mounted directory. Maybe it has something
> to do with that?

Is the entire directory NFS mounted, or just part of the directory
hierarchy?

Did you first run darcs initialize?
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