Problem: "Looks like we ran out of shards for you to download before you ran out of disk space."

[peterVG]

Just tried to do my first initial download but ran into this error:
Looks like we ran out of shards for you to download before you ran out of disk space.

The shard1 directory is empty.

[smammy]

It appears that the initial git annex sync is failing. I think the relevant output is:

commit
On branch main

Initial commit

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
ok
pull origin

merge: refs/remotes/origin/main - not something we can merge

merge: refs/remotes/origin/synced/main - not something we can merge
failed
git-annex: sync: 1 failed

git status in shard1 shows:

On branch main

No commits yet

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

I imagine some commits should have been pulled at some point!

[smammy]

After further investigation, it appears that using my system git-annex rather than the one that install-git-annex installs fixes this.

[Alcatraz077]

@smammy So I've ran into this same issue, installed git-annex on my own system, but keep getting this error. Is there something in the scripts I need to change to use that version of git-annex rather than the one that install-git-annex installs?