diff --git a/doc/bugs/compute_remote_fails_for_unicode_filenames/comment_5_4acd238cbe4eee4edf1311172f24555a._comment b/doc/bugs/compute_remote_fails_for_unicode_filenames/comment_5_4acd238cbe4eee4edf1311172f24555a._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..960252d8d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/compute_remote_fails_for_unicode_filenames/comment_5_4acd238cbe4eee4edf1311172f24555a._comment @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="datawraith" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/e36c82a2b6f3150ad14a24eb7eb85826" + subject="comment 5" + date="2025-06-04T19:26:29Z" + content=""" +> What are the versions of git-annex in the VM where it worked vs where it didn't? + +The version on the VM is the same one I reported in the initial post: 10.20250520, installed via Homebrew. git-annex wasn't originally installed on that VM, so I installed it at that version to test it. + +When everything worked at first, I updated the VM to the Bluefin version I was running on my laptop, thinking that might be the problem, and then had the strange results I reported above. + +Since the git-annex installation itself had not changed between when things worked and when they stopped, I started to suspect something like the kernel bug I mentioned (because the Kernel *had* changed). + +I'm now also having trouble reproducing the problem in the VM at all. The files that were failing before are now added without problems again, as are newly created files -- though I had had to shut down and later restart the VM. I wish I had thought of making a full snapshot when I started experimenting, but I didn't. :-/ + +The only machine that exhibits the problem consistently now is my laptop. + +> And, if you can possibly download and unpack the linuxstandalone tarball, and use that to run git-annex in the bad VM, that would be a useful check that the problem does not somehow involve the homebrew build. https://git-annex.branchable.com/install/Linux_standalone/ + +With the standalone tarball (`10.20250521-g1a9e6bf26b56c39429d4a096bf733e57e5684e1b`, using the `./runshell`) `addcomputed` works as expected on my laptop -- Unicode characters are shown with the backslash escape, whereas the Homebrew build alone fails by stripping the unicode characters. + +Hm. + +Running the `git-annex` executable from `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/` inside of the runshell works as well -- it doesn't strip the characters. That might mean that it is not the Homebrew build that is broken, but that something about my environment is simply screwed up. + +"""]]