#28373·client

Keybase git repos not working

Author: kg4zowCreated Jun 4, 2025Updated Aug 27, 2026

Most of the git repos in one of my teams have not been working for several months.

I can't clone them ...

$ git clone keybase://team/teamname/obsidian-personal
Cloning into 'obsidian-personal'...
Initializing Keybase... done.
Syncing with Keybase... done.
git-remote-keybase error: (1) Server: block does not exist

$ git clone keybase://team/teamname/obsidian-work
Cloning into 'obsidian-work'...
Initializing Keybase... done.
Syncing with Keybase... done.
git-remote-keybase error: (1) Server: block does not exist

And I can't delete them ...

$ keybase git delete --team teamname obsidian-personal
Deletion is permanent. Are you sure you want to delete "obsidian-personal"? (type 'YES' to confirm): YES
▶ ERROR  (code 2704)
$ keybase git delete --team teamname obsidian-work
Deletion is permanent. Are you sure you want to delete "obsidian-work"? (type 'YES' to confirm): YES
▶ ERROR  (code 2704)

FWIW I was able to recover their contents by rsync'ing the raw files from the /keybase/team/teamname/.kbfs_git/ directory (I told one of the devs about this at the time), and I created the repos under a different team where they seem to be working okay, but it would be nice if these non-working repos could be deleted, especially where they can't be cloned anymore (I'm assuming "Server: block does not exist" means exactly what it sounds like, i.e. one or more of the S3 encrypted data storage blocks are just plain gone).

My log id: fc0e299da940ee6a52542f1c

And here's the number 345567, to make your bot happy.