Can you collect a strace to see which syscall is(are) failing towards the end?

I tried this locally and I was able to initialize and sync the repro without errors. I suspect that the root cause of this issue was the same as #313.

Now to try to compile android from my shiny new Android repo :)

This is still not fixed. I am trying to sync CyanogenMod (cm-13.0).
This is the error I'm seeing

Syncing work tree:  54% (284/525)  error: unable to create file tests/P_str_escape/str\\escape.rs (Invalid argument)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/main.py", line 531, in <module>
    _Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/main.py", line 507, in _Main
    result = repo._Run(argv) or 0
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/main.py", line 180, in _Run
    result = cmd.Execute(copts, cargs)
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/subcmds/sync.py", line 769, in Execute
    project.Sync_LocalHalf(syncbuf, force_sync=opt.force_sync)
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/project.py", line 1247, in Sync_LocalHalf
    self._InitWorkTree(force_sync=force_sync)
  File "/mnt/d/android/cm-13.0/.repo/repo/project.py", line 2393, in _InitWorkTree
    raise GitError("cannot initialize work tree")
error.GitError: cannot initialize work tree

I'm on build 14372.
Let me know if you need any additional information.
I really hope to see this Bash on Windows be of practical use.

UPDATE: I did a strace on repo sync output log was too big, here's tail-ed version: http://paste.ubuntu.com/18417560/

I hope this is useful to find the cause of error.

@callingmedic911 It's looks like a limitation of DrvFs (/mnt/* folders). Try in a VolFs folder like /home/user and you should have better luck.
More info here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/06/15/wsl-file-system-support/

@onomatopellan Thanks! This worked. Although, do you know any possible to use source code from other partition, or perhaps shift installation directory of BashOnWindows, if possible?

Android source is huge and compiling with ccache on is going to take a lot of space in Windows partition.

@callingmedic911 No, not that I know of. Shifting Linux filesystem was discussed here #449 but I never tried the vhdx method.

@benhillis is there any way you can fix this for people using other directories then for example /home/user/ ? when i'm using /mnt/d/android/ i just have the same error like the people above, but my windows disk is too small to sync a whole android source. fix would be lovely, also have you suceeded compiling? thank you very much

I remember running into another issue when trying to compile, I think it might have been java related. We've fixed some java-related issues recently but have not had a chance to try this again.

oh, i freed up some space on my C drive so i will try if ill get any error, i guess alot of things will freak out lol, and what about the issue that i cant have it synced on DrvFs i would love to see a fix haha, anyway thanks for echo and have a nice day

A workaround: create the file "tests/P_str_escape/str/escape.rs" manually (with empty content).
Can run "repo --trace sync" to find where to create the file; it's likely in the "frameworks/compile/slang" folder.

@skyhover Did you tested it? I did not work for me. But this worked:

rm -rf frameworks/compile/slang/
mkdir /home/<user>/slang_helper
sudo ln -s /home/<user>/slang_helper frameworks/compile/slang

@skyhover it worked！but i am still curious why it can not be created automaticly.

@WallyCZ Thank you it worked for me

Fix https://github.com/NyaSik/FixDownloadAnrdoid

I do not know if the tambourine and the sacrifice of the goat helped the neighbor. Or this fix.

Fix https://github.com/NyaSik/FixDownloadAnrdoid
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