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diff --git a/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn b/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..05490a799 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Cannot_write_to_commitlock.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +I am following the laptop wiki with git tip page. I have set up my local and remote wiki as suggested. However, when I try to push my local changes back to the server I get the following error: + +Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 359 bytes, done. +Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) +cannot write to /home/ian/ianbarton/.ikiwiki/commitlock: No such file or directory +To ian@wilkesley.org:~/ikiwiki/ianbarton.git + 5cf9054..16a871d master -> master + +The relevnt bit of my setup file is: + +git_wrapper => '/home/ian/ianbarton.git/hooks/post-commit', + +Now ~/ianbarton/.ikiwiki exists and is owned and writable by me. I have tried touching commitlock and also removing lock and commitlock before pushing. Any suggestions for further trouble shooting? + +Ian. + +> I'm guessing that this is some kind of permissions problem, +> and that the error message is just being misleading. +> +> When you push the changes to the server, what user is +> git logging into the server as? If that user is different +> than `ian` (possibly due to using git-daemon?), the post-commit +> wrapper needs to be setuid to `ian`. This ensures that ikiwiki +> runs as you and can see and write to the files. --[[Joey]] + +The user is logging as ian, the same user as the laptop. I can push and pull git repos on the same server owned by the same user via ssh with no problem. I have deleted and re-started from scratch several times. However, for my use case I think it's simpler to keep the repo on my local computer and just rsync the web pages to the server. + +Ian. |