When using Go and Glide, one may see messages such as this: -
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/gorilla/securecookie: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/gin-gonic/gin: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for gopkg.in/mgo.v2: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[ERROR]Failed to do initial checkout of config: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/gorilla/securecookie: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/gin-gonic/gin: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[WARN]Download failed.
[ERROR]Update failed for gopkg.in/mgo.v2: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
[ERROR]Failed to do initial checkout of config: Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
Unable to update repository: exit status 255
during the glide update process: -
glide update
Chances are it's permissions related ....
I saw this today - thinking that it might be a cache issue, I tried to clear the Glide Cache: -
glide cc
which failed with: -
[ERROR]Unable to clear the cache: unlinkat /home/hayd/.glide/cache/src/https-github.com-googleapis-gnostic/discovery/discovery.proto: permission denied
which reminded me that I'd been going back and forth between my non-root user and root ( via sudo ).
I fixed this as follows: -
sudo chown -R hayd:hayd /home/hayd/.glide
and then re-ran: -
glide cc
which worked as expected: -
[INFO]Glide cache has been cleared.
I was then able to update the Glide dependencies: -
glide update
Nice !