Invalid argument (os error 22) with zola 0.12.2

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I have a little zola-driven blog on FreeBSD, and after upgrading from 0.10.0 to 0.12.2, my site won’t build anymore. The issuse seems to be related to the static catalogue.

~/dev/zola-test  $ zola build
Building site...
-> Creating 26 pages (0 orphan), 4 sections, and processing 0 images
Failed to build the site
Error: Invalid argument (os error 22)

If I delete the static folder, the site builds just fine. If I copy any file to the static catalogue - even something like “touch test.css”, the error will reappear. Everything worked fine in 0.10.0. Any ideas on how to approach this error?

2

I’m guessing it’s something in the static copying then, when we check the time of a file to compare if we need to copy or not components/utils/src/fs.rs ?

3

Thanks, I will check fs.rs. The error triggers on all my zola sites and even if I create a new zola project with a single static file, so I can’t build any zola projects. Since nobody else has this problem, I guess it might be a FreeBSD issue.

4

You were right, the bug seems to be in fs.rs. I ran the tests of the utils component on FreeBSD 12.1 with the following result:

jans@badister ~/dev/thirdparty/zola/components/utils (git::master) $ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo test
    Finished test [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.52s
     Running /usr/home/jans/dev/thirdparty/zola/target/debug/deps/utils-af1ca2f3481e41fa

running 15 tests
test site::tests::can_resolve_escaped_internal_links ... ok
test fs::tests::can_find_related_assets ... ok
test site::tests::can_resolve_internal_links_with_anchors ... ok
test site::tests::can_resolve_valid_internal_link ... ok
test site::tests::can_resolve_valid_root_internal_link ... ok
test site::tests::errors_resolve_inexistant_internal_link ... ok
test fs::tests::test_copy_file_timestamp_preserved ... FAILED
test site::tests::reading_analytics_empty_text ... ok
test fs::tests::test_copy_file_already_exists ... FAILED
test site::tests::reading_analytics_short_text ... ok
test slugs::tests::can_slugify_anchors ... ok
test slugs::tests::can_slugify_paths ... ok
test vec::test::insert_many_works ... ok
test templates::tests::can_rewrite_all_paths_of_theme ... ok
test site::tests::reading_analytics_long_text ... ok

failures:

---- fs::tests::test_copy_file_timestamp_preserved stdout ----
thread 'fs::tests::test_copy_file_timestamp_preserved' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { kind: Io(Os { code: 22, kind: InvalidInput, message: "Invalid argument" }), source: None }', components/utils/src/fs.rs:223:86
stack backtrace:
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.

---- fs::tests::test_copy_file_already_exists stdout ----
thread 'fs::tests::test_copy_file_already_exists' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { kind: Io(Os { code: 22, kind: InvalidInput, message: "Invalid argument" }), source: None }', components/utils/src/fs.rs:244:86
stack backtrace:
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.


failures:
    fs::tests::test_copy_file_already_exists
    fs::tests::test_copy_file_timestamp_preserved

test result: FAILED. 13 passed; 2 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out
5

Bumping the version of filetime from 0.2.12 to 0.2.13 in the utils component resolved the issue for me.

6

Yep, someone did a PR to do a cargo update so it should be back to working for the next Zola release