CircleCI always fails to checkout code

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1

At the checkout phase, CircleCI fails with following message:

fatal: destination path ‘.’ already exists and is not an empty directory.
Exited with code 128

It happens sometimes. A rerun of the job may fix it. But it’s just getting more and more annoying to manually restart the job each time.

Here attached the config.yml

# Scala CircleCI 2.0 configuration file
#
# Check https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/sample-config/ for more details
#
version: 2
jobs:
  build-test:
    docker:
      - image: ledgerhq/jdk8-scylla:1.0
    working_directory: ~/project
    environment:
      # Customize the SBT maximum heap limit
      SBT_OPTS: "-Xms128m -Xmx2g"
      TERM: dumb
    steps:
      - run:
          name: Clean workspace
          command: rm -rf ~/project
      - run:
          name: Start ScyllaDB
          command: /docker-entrypoint.py --listen-address localhost --memory 3G --smp 1 --overprovisioned 1
          background: true
      - checkout
      # Download and cache dependencies
      - restore_cache:
          keys:
          - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "project/Dependencies.scala" }}
          # fallback to using the latest cache if no exact match is found
          - v1-dependencies-
      - run: cat /dev/null | sbt test:compile test:test
      # save dependencies
      - save_cache:
          paths:
            - ~/.ivy2
            - ~/.sbt
          key: v1-dependencies--{{ checksum "project/Dependencies.scala" }}
  package:
    docker:
      - image: ledgerhq/jdk8-scylla:1.0
    working_directory: ~/project
    environment:
      # Customize the SBT maximum heap limit
      SBT_OPTS: "-Xmx1g"
      TERM: dumb
    steps:
      - run: rm -rf ~/project
      - checkout
      # Download and cache dependencies
      - restore_cache:
          keys:
          - v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "project/Dependencies.scala" }}
          # fallback to using the latest cache if no exact match is found
          - v1-dependencies-
      # run tests!
      - run: cat /dev/null | sbt assembly
      - persist_to_workspace:
          root: ~/project
          paths:
            - assembly
            - dockerfiles
            - scripts
  tag_version-rolling:
    docker:
      - image: ledgerhq/jdk8-scylla:1.0
    working_directory: ~/project
    steps:
      - run: rm -rf ~/project
      - checkout
      - run: scripts/tag_version-rolling.sh
  docker:
    docker:
      - image: docker
    working_directory: ~/project
    environment:
    steps:
      - attach_workspace:
          at: ~/project
      - setup_remote_docker:
          docker_layer_caching: true
      - run:
          name: Docker build and push
          command: scripts/docker.sh
workflows:
  version: 2
  dev_pre-prod_prod:
    jobs:
      - build-test:
          filters:
            tags:
              only: /^v.*/
      - package:
          filters:
            branches:
              ignore: /.*/
            tags:
              only: /^v.*/
          requires:
            - build-test
      - docker:
          filters:
            branches:
              ignore: /.*/
            tags:
              only: /^v.*/
          requires:
            - package
      - tag_version-rolling:
          filters:
            branches:
              only:
                - master
            tags:
              ignore: /.*/
          requires:
            - build-test
3

You’re using checkout steps in downstream jobs. Use it in the job that runs first, and then use workspaces to persists any files that you need to downstream jobs.

4

Thanks for reply. Will this be the cause even the failure happened in the first job?

5

Maybe not. I tried running the Docker image locally and I can’t even get that to work though.