"cannot delete the bucket because it's being used by another process"

xsys · October 5, 2021, 2:35pm

I try to delete bucket, supposedly empty but it should not matter, I’m getting this reply:
c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink rb --force sj://temp Bucket temp has NOT been deleted uplink: bucket: metaclient: cannot delete the bucket because it’s being used by another processError: uplink: bucket: metaclient: cannot delete the bucket because it’s being used by another process c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls BKT 2021-09-22 17:21:43 temp c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp c:\Users\dell\Desktop> c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls --encrypted sj://temp c:\Users\dell\Desktop> c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink version Release build Version: v1.34.3
What I’m doing wrong? How to delete?

littleskunk · October 5, 2021, 7:35pm

Can you please try uplink ls sj://temp --pending

xsys · October 6, 2021, 11:51am

blank reply

C:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp --pending

C:\Users\dell\Desktop>

Just to make sure, I tried again all other commands above, with same result as before.

Btw. on web interface it shows:

xsys · October 7, 2021, 10:04am

Thanks for the tip, however I don’t use Telegram. I expect storj will reply here…
If it is a glitch in storj systems, it’s good to let them know so they can investigate.

bre · October 7, 2021, 10:28am

Hi @xsys I’ve forwarded your question to the team who should be able to help with this issue.

Alexey · October 7, 2021, 9:51pm

Could you please update the uplink and try again?

By the way, do you have rclone mount somewhere for that bucket? or s3fs?

xsys · October 8, 2021, 8:54am

I do not use rclone, s3 or any other app.
uplink updated, result the same.
c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink rb --force sj://temp Bucket temp has NOT been deleted uplink: bucket: metaclient: cannot delete the bucket because it’s being used by another processError: uplink: bucket: metaclient: cannot delete the bucket because it’s being used by another process c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink version Release build Version: v1.40.4 Build timestamp: 06 Oct 21 11:19 CEST Git commit: 9cb33b0ab79b044c6da6b9d38b2dde6440dad781 c:\Users\dell\Desktop>
I can give you full access if it helps, the account is testing only and empty anyway.
This is actually result of my playing with the tools, I created various Access grants, buckets, etc., and later removed everything, in random order. I guess I broke it

Alexey · October 8, 2021, 6:14pm

This is interesting results, I never saw such a error before.

Andrii · October 8, 2021, 7:31pm

Hi xsys, I’m trying to reproduce it. When you play with permissions - did you play with access grant duration?

xsys · October 9, 2021, 6:01am

nope, I always left defaults here

and “Continue in browser”

It will be hard to reproduce, I played with it many many times, on eu1 and us2, and it never happened, and I don’t remember exactly what steps I performed with this folder before it got locked…

Andrii · October 11, 2021, 8:30pm

Seems like this error means the bucket is not empty after object deletes.
Actually weird, because --force should remove any existing objects

elek · October 12, 2021, 10:51am

I also tried to reproduce with uploading files with two different encryption secret. But for me it worked well. --force deleted everything from the bucket…

Nikolai_Siedov · October 12, 2021, 1:29pm

the only place where such an error can occur, as Andrii said - your bucket is not empty. Try to delete everything from it. It’s an interesting bug, I’ll try to figure out how to prevent it

xsys · October 12, 2021, 1:38pm

yes I deleted all content, is show empty, on web interface it says 0.00GB but 725 objects, not sure what it means though

xsys · October 12, 2021, 1:41pm

when trying to delete on web, as it usually says something like “Bucket not empty”, in this case it says “Internal error” instead:

Nikolai_Siedov · October 12, 2021, 1:57pm

try to run uplink ls sj://bucket --recursive and uplink ls sj://bucket --recursive --pending please

xsys · October 12, 2021, 2:47pm

in both cases empty reply:
c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp --recursive

c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp --recursive --pending

xsys · October 12, 2021, 2:56pm

update:
I created new Access grant, with the same passphrase, and tried to create folder “testing new folder” and upload file “apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip”, in order to see if it even works.
The newly created folder and file show up correctly.
Interestingly, the result of the commands above has changed since:
c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp --recursive OBJ 2021-10-12 16:49:24 0 testing new folder/.file_placeholder OBJ 2021-10-12 16:49:41 8617253 apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.zip c:\Users\dell\Desktop> c:\Users\dell\Desktop>uplink ls sj://temp --recursive --pending OBJ 2021-09-23 21:37:18 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/openssl/LICENSE OBJ 2021-09-23 21:44:43 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/openssl/crypto/des/COPYRIGHT OBJ 2021-09-23 21:44:42 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/openssl/crypto/bf/COPYRIGHT OBJ 2021-09-23 21:37:31 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/sysvinit/COPYRIGHT OBJ 2021-09-23 21:36:35 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/dhcp/LICENSE OBJ 2021-09-23 21:36:51 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/iptables/COPYING OBJ 2021-09-23 22:05:10 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/linux/arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB OBJ 2021-09-23 21:44:42 0 sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/linux/fs/jffs2/LICENCE —cut—There is over 100 rows continuing, looks like residual of one of my previous tests. How can I flush that?

Alexey · October 13, 2021, 6:01am

Two ways:

One by one

uplink rm --pending "sj://temp/sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/iptables/COPYING"

The whole bucket

uplink rb --force sj://temp

(perhaps it would work on this time)

If you would be forced to use “one by one” method, then you can use this one-liner:

just add --pending to uplink ls and to uplink rm, and use your own bucket and prefix (“folder”) name.

xsys · October 18, 2021, 4:30pm

this worked uplink rm --pending "sj://temp/sw/VIDEO UTILITY/Panasonic HD writer AE 5.0/OSS LICENSE (AE)/HC-V520M,V520,V510/iptables/COPYING" for the individual file.
Interestingly, uplink rb --force sj://temp did not work yesterday, but today it worked, although I didn’t do anything else.
So it is finally resolved…