[Boost-testing] Failure on Master on Linux

Subject: [Boost-testing] Failure on Master on Linux
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-27 10:42:03

When running some recent tests on master (last successful run was ref
f612fc, run Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:16:30 +0000) I'm getting crashes in
the run script during the git submodule update command:

# Executing GIT command: /mnt/teeks99-05/a/boost_root> git submodule "update"
Submodule path 'libs/functional': checked out
'66477fe07ac7c0c04d219286feaeaa269bd59c05'
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
by checkout:
        preprocess/Jamfile.v2
        preprocess/preprocess_fusion.cpp
        preprocess/wave.cfg
        test/sequence/map_comparison.cpp
        test/sequence/map_construction.cpp
        test/sequence/map_copy.cpp
        test/sequence/map_misc.cpp
        test/sequence/map_move.cpp
        test/sequence/map_mutate.cpp
        test/sequence/ref_vector.cpp
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
Submodule path 'libs/icl': checked out
'5aed037fc77110290075e13d85c4e53776e1252d'
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
by checkout:
        ChangeLog
        test/regression/bug6268.cpp
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten
by checkout:
        .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
Unable to checkout 'aa7802866204a6635651192397d680bf448865da' in
submodule path 'libs/fusion'
Unable to checkout '47a18d850e4eb0b68c00e7cf77340b014f6d7a40' in
submodule path 'libs/phoenix'
Unable to checkout '038550a9df9fb219a6d4eabf73a57b98b11c95db' in
submodule path 'libs/unordered'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 83, in <module>
    runner(root)
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line
260, in __init__
    self.main()
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line 646, in main
    getattr(self,action_m)()
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line
584, in command_regression
    self.command_get_tools()
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line
310, in command_get_tools
    self.git_branch())
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line
908, in git_checkout
    self.git_command( 'submodule', 'update')
  File "/mnt/teeks99-05/a/tools_regression_src/regression.py", line
895, in git_command
    raise Exception( 'GIT command "%s" failed with code %d' % (git_cli, rc) )
Exception: GIT command "git submodule "update"" failed with code 256

Any ideas how it would get in this state?