On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:03 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:51 PM Randall S. Becker > <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to track down what happened this morning. We had a commit that > > caused a background gc to occur. What happened was: > > > > $ git commit -m "history commit ... " > > Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. > > See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. > > warning: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the root > > cause > > and remove .git/gc.log. > > Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed. > > > > fatal: open /dev/null failed: Invalid function argument > > sanitize_stdfds() in setup.c can attempt to open /dev/null then > redirect stdout and stderr to it. I think this is part of the > daemonization that is done in background gc. However the message does not match. I think you will find this "open /dev/null failed" line in run-command.c -- Duy