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Ticket Hash: 8b0df73d7e5244cdb18c663cec7877ffe707f988
Title: Unable to create a new repository
Status: Open Type: Incident
Severity: Critical Priority:
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Last Modified: 2026-07-31 11:48:39
14.9 days ago
Created: 2026-07-31 11:48:39
14.9 days ago
Version Found In: Current
User Comments:
anonymous added on 2026-07-31 11:48:39:

After submitting the "Create new Repository" dialog I get this message:

Something failed during the creation process please try again.

Error: fossil new failed: PHP Warning: link(): No such file or directory in /web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/suid-fossil on line 195

PHP Warning: symlink(): No such file or directory in /web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/suid-fossil on line 198

PHP Warning: link(): Operation not permitted in /web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/suid-fossil on line 221

cp: cannot create hard link '/tmp/simple-root//web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/../../repos/Hennes/dev/null' to '/tmp/simple-root/dev/null': Operation not permitted

cp: cannot create hard link '/tmp/simple-root//web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/../../repos/Hennes/dev/urandom' to '/tmp/simple-root/dev/urandom': Operation not permitted

cp: cannot create hard link '/tmp/simple-root//web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/../../repos/Hennes/dev/random' to '/tmp/simple-root/dev/random': Operation not permitted

cp: cannot create hard link '/tmp/simple-root//web/customers/chiselapp.com/scripts/fossil-as-user/../../repos/Hennes/dev/zero' to '/tmp/simple-root/dev/zero': Operation not permitted

execve(program, argv, environ): Too many levels of symbolic links