Etckeeper suddenly unable to make commits.

cubethethird · 2024-02-07 15:29:06

I have been using etckeeper for many years without having to touch or change any of its configurations. Recently, I've noticed the pacman hooks either aren't working, or aren't getting triggered. When trying to trigger it manually, I am greeted with:

Committer identity unknown
*** Please tell me who you are.
Run
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.
fatal: empty ident name (for <root@myhostname>) not allowed

Checking my git logs, all previous commits were logged as being from <user@myhostname> (user being my login username)

I am unsure what would have caused this change.
Any advice on how to correct this would be much appreciated.

dakota · 2024-02-07 19:34:41

Have you tried manually creating an identity?

Git First Time Setup

$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Cheers,

cubethethird · 2024-02-07 21:58:58

I can try that yes, but I'm wondering why suddenly, as of a few weeks ago, the existing identity it was using doesn't work.

dakota · 2024-02-08 01:35:23

Sorry. I didn't read your post closely enough.

I would start by looking at your current identity to see if it is still set, or if something reset it to a blank field.

git config --list --show-origin

Cheers,

Edit -- possible a recent change by git, requiring both an email and a username?

Last edited by dakota (2024-02-08 01:42:43)

cubethethird · 2024-02-08 03:21:10

Here is the output it gave me:

file:.git/config core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config core.filemode=true
file:.git/config core.bare=false
file:.git/config core.logallrefupdates=true

I'm not sure that a git change caused this, seeing as the last update to the git package was much longer ago. Also, when looking at the existing git log, I see it formatted like so:

Author: user <user@myhostname>

Lone_Wolf · 2024-02-08 09:16:50

Are you sure you ran that command in the correct folder ?

I expect it to show other things besides those 4 , like remote.origin.url .

This could be due to a change on the server where your repo is hosted, have you checked there ?

cubethethird · 2024-02-08 16:15:41

I'm not hosting a separate repo anywhere. This is literally the output I get when I go into /etc, and then run git commands (with sudo, or as root)

dakota · 2024-02-09 04:37:09

I installed etckeeper and configured it to only monitor /etc using git locally.

Running the following commands as root (from within /etc), I'm seeing:

# git config --list
-----------------------------------
user.email=<myEmail>
user.name=<myName>
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true

# git config --list --show-origin
-----------------------------------
file:/root/.gitconfig   user.email=<myEmail>
file:/root/.gitconfig   user.name=<myName>
file:.git/config        core.repositoryformatversion=0
file:.git/config        core.filemode=true
file:.git/config        core.bare=false
file:.git/config        core.logallrefupdates=true

I have no idea what changed recently, but it seems pretty clear that your identity no longer exists.

Cheers,

Anakon · 2024-02-25 18:06:26

Hi, I had the same issue.
The cause was a change in the file /etc/passwd in the filesystem package. The comment field (5th field) for the root user is missing.
Add "root" to it and git will find it's identity.

cubethethird · 2024-02-25 18:12:39

Bingo! That was indeed the problem. Thanks for pointing this out!

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Etckeeper suddenly unable to make commits.

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