Publii GitLab Sync error

I too have received this exact same error. however, I’m on Linux, specifically Linux lite, an Ubuntu variant. If i have to roll back an update fine but, why is this happening in the first place? It worked perfectly fine before. So if anyone else can help us that would be amazing

I just noticed that the message in the deployment-process.log is actually different for me. Instead of ”A file with this name already exists” as noted above, I get “A file with this name doesn’t exist”.

The whole file’s content is as follows :

[Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:25:14 GMT] (!) CLIENT CREATED
Founded 864 operations to do
[Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:25:36 GMT] (!) FILES TO REMOVE DETECTED
[Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:25:36 GMT] (!) REMOTE FILE DOWNLOADED
[Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:25:37 GMT] (!) COMMIT ERROR: {"name":"HTTPError","timings":{"start":1662247536049,"socket":1662247536050,"lookup":1662247536050,"connect":1662247536173,"secureConnect":1662247536400,"upload":1662247536402,"response":1662247537342,"end":1662247537343,"phases":{"wait":1,"dns":0,"tcp":123,"tls":227,"request":2,"firstByte":940,"download":1,"total":1294}},"description":"A file with this name doesn't exist"}

I added the screenshot of the error message as an attachment.

@iceberg53 – your issue also can come from the same bug. BTW images are also binary files 🙂

Hi,

The hotfix has been released (v.0.40.3) – I strongly suggest to make a backup of the files on the repository.

Then you can try to remove public catalog and publii.files.json file and do full resync (I suppose that due fact that repository is probably out of the sync, without removing files it will be impossible out of the box).

If somethings goes wrong during resync – you will be able to restore previous state of public catalog and publii.files.json file using files from the backup.

Thanks for the hot fix.

I’m ,however, still not able to sync my website and I keep getting the same error message I shared above.

Testing the connection with the server yielded a result I’ve a hard time understanding.

The error message states that Publii was able to connect to the server but unable to store files as the repository didn’t exist.

I don’t understand why as my repository does exist even though I deleted the public folder and the publii.files.json file.

The access token I used has no expiration date but I preferred creating a new one to make sure that it had nothing to do with it.

So far, nothing seems to work.

Any hint about solving this problem is very welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Considering your suggestions, I tried to figure out what wasn’t working properly. I checked my repository name for a typo, I’m the owner of the repository and my access token has an api scope.

I googled a bit and found that such an error might be related to my ssh keys. I then generated new ssh keys and added them to my Gitlab account, but it still didn’t work.

Afterwards, I created a new repository with a gitlab-ci.yml and tried deploying. It worked flawlessly.

I tried many other scenarios with my existing repo and the new one to figure out the problem.

Ultimately, I concluded that as long as my target repo name is exactly the same as my username, I would keep getting the same error.

I just had to rename my repository to be able to deploy.

Thanks for your support and for developing Publii. I really like it.