bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! about gitportable HOT 32 CLOSED

Hmm… perhaps check that your TEMP and TMP environment variables are defined? I'll see if this is affecting me too.

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Open Start Menu

Type "cmd"

Press Enter

type "bash"

Press Enter

type "mkdir /tmp"

Press Enter

Close the command prompt window

Solved the error for me

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I was able to narrow down the issue. When you start Git via GitPortable.exe and then use git pull you will see the /tmp error. Try the same by directly launching Git Bash.vbs or by modifying Start Git Bash.cmd (removing the line cd App\Git) and then launching Start Git Bash.cmd . It must be related to the cd action. However, when you remove cd App\Git, GitPortable.exe no longer works as it needs to switch to App\Git to find Start Git Bash.cmd which then launches Git Bash.vbs.

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I worked around this issue by adding the following to my ~/.bash_profile:

[ ! -d /tmp ] && mkdir /tmp

Adding this to the /etc/profile script will fix it for everyone.

I discovered that mkdir /tmp "magically" from within msysgit creates the directory in the user's temp directory, i.e. on Windows 7 when it creates /tmp, /tmp actually maps to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\GitPortableTemp.

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I tried .bash_profile fix but did not work, but found an interesting behaviour.

Run GitPortable.exe
$ ls -la /tmp          ## tmp dir is found
$ cd /c/projects
$ ls -la /tmp       ## tmp dir is not found gitk does gives a warning
$ mkdir /tmp
$ ls -la /tmp       ## tmp dir is found and gitk does not give a warning

Tried to put cd /c/ && mkdir /tmp in a .bash_profile but but I think it does not want to chdir to /C/* folders

edit1 Actually this is what happens. Initial tmp folder is found while cmd.exe "Starting Git portable..." console window is visible. It disappears within 10 seconds. Then tmp folder is no longer found.
edit2 installed 1.9.5 Development Test 2 on top of the older 1.9.5 release. This version does not show cmd.exe console for 10 seconds, /tmp folder is alive few seconds then it disappears from directory listings.

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I was able to fix the issue by adding %PAL:DataDir% to the launcher environment variable.

I recreated the installer for Dev Test 3 to use the improvement.

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Hello @orschiro! I've installed this app yesterday, from https://github.com/bungeshea/GitPortable/blob/master/GitPortable_1.8.3_Development_Test_1_online.paf.exe, and noticed that this bug is still present. Output of both TEMP and TMP is /tmp. The fix you created was included on this .paf.exe?

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Thanks for the report mMontu.

I will reopen this and try to find a solution.

Actually the fix I provided should be included.

Do you notice any negative side effects?

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I was in trouble to make git commands to work. Some turned out to be caused for other reasons.
One that remains is with git difftool:

$ git difftool
fatal: unable to create temp-file: No such file or directory

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I am currently not in the state of testing the code but I think we
need to add %TEMP% to [Environment]
PATH=%PATH%;%PAL:AppDir%\Git;%PAL:DataDir% in
GitPortable/App/AppInfo/Launcher/GitPortable.ini

Could you guys please try that and build GitPortable with that option?

Robert

On 19 July 2013 13:56, mMontu [email protected] wrote:

I was in trouble to make git commands to work. Some turned out to be caused
for other reasons.
One that remains is with git difftool:

$ git difftool
fatal: unable to create temp-file: No such file or directory

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

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The path PATH=%PATH%;%PAL:AppDir%\Git;%PAL:DataDir% is already in the file GitPortable/App/AppInfo/Launcher/GitPortable.ini

But I still get this error: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp

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As I said above, append the temp variable to it:

[Environment]
PATH=%PATH%;%PAL:AppDir%\Git;%PAL:DataDir%;%TEMP%

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After add %TEMP% nothing changed.
A workaround was issue 2 commands in bash: "cd /" and "mkdir tmp"
Tip found in: http://canerblt.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/git-warning-could-not-find-tmp-please-create/

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Of course, / refers to the App/Git directory. So a possible solution could be to add a tmp dir to that directory.

I still cannot reproduce the error, so I'm not sure how we should resolve this. In the meantime, people who are receiving the error can try the solution mentioned above by @margenn.

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I am not sure if this is the case, but I had that problem before.

My portable environment is running in a Virtual disk in RAM and I changed all the caches temp tmp pagination file into the RAM, but the problem happen when I wanted to recreate all the settings including the %TEMP% environment var into my RAM unit environment.

The problem with the environment vars is that loads before the script is executed, and any child process will read the starting vars and if you change the vars, you will need to close any parent process too, in some cases the parent process is the user login!! so is not recommendable change the %TEMP% vars (or any environment var) on the fly or by using scripts, since in the worst scenario you will need to log out and log in again.

In my settings the default %TEMP% is on the virtual disk in RAM, when I reboot he first thing is to create the virtual disk if not I have any kind of problems.

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The problem still exists.

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@bungeshea To reproduce the problem: Get a new installation of Git portable. cd (charge directory) to any repository that you may have. Then type: gitk. You should see the warning. Example of the steps

cd /e/myproject
gitk
bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

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@axgdev Thanks, I can reproduce the error now.

@ramiroalvarez That does indeed solve the error - the only issue now is removing the need to run those commands.

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@ramiroalvarez

1. I tried "cmd; bash" and got "bash is not a recognised... command"
2. If I try "mkdir /tmp" in the git bash window, it says "/tmp already exists"

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@qq42 great idea on adding the creation code to the profile script; I've done so and will build 1.9.5 Dev Test 2 shortly. Could everyone please try it out and see if this issue is resolved.

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This should be fixed in 1.9.5 Development Test 2. Could people please test it out and report back here.

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I just downloaded and installed 1.9.5 Development Test 2 from the link on Github, the error still occurred for me.

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Rather than running GitPortable.exe, navigate to the App\Git folder and run git-bash.bat. Doing that has solved my tmp folder errors.

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Thanks, did the trick \app\git\git-bash.bat script opens a console where /tmp folder stays alive. Problem solved.

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Git for Windows proper has been released, and includes new ways to launch Git Bash or Git Cmd. I'll be updating Git Portable soon to use the new version; hopefully that should fix this bug.

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I've released Git Portable 2.5.1 Dev Test 1, which updates Git to version 2.5.1 and uses a completely new launcher system which should fix this issue.

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When running Git Bash Portable right after the upgrade/install for Git Portable 2.5.1 Dev Test 1 completes it says:
Failed to fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable. DLL rebasing may be required. See 'rebaseall --help'.

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@ramiroalvarez solution works for me as well.
thanks!

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I've just released a new version which uses Git 2.5.3. @qq42 @adica

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@ramiroalvarez solution works for me as well, except I opened the command window from git bash

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GitPortable_2.6.2_Development_Test_1.paf = bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

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I'm closing this issue for now; if this error occurs in a new version please create a new one.

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