1.8.3.4: fatal: index file open failed: Permission denied [ubuntu 12.04]

[jco...@gmail.com]

(I'm not sure if this is the right place) 

I've been seeing this in 1.8.3.3 and 1.8.3.4: 

$ git status

fatal: index file open failed: Permission denied

So I do a chmod and chown, do my commit etc. A while later the error is back. 

$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

Release: 12.04

Codename: precise

$ git --version

git version 1.8.3.4

I upgraded to 1.8.3.4 hoping that it would fix it but no luck.

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:01 AM, <jco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (I'm not sure if this is the right place)

It's absolutely not. This is the mailing list for the Windows port of
Git. Check out http://git-scm.com/community for the appropriate
channels.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, jco...@gmail.com wrote:

> Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

You sent this report to the Git for Windows mailing list. The Git mailing
list is at g...@vger.kernel.org.

Ciao,
Johannes

[Justin Collum]

Yeah I think Erik already clarified this.