# Update error: There are modified or conflicting files in the repository
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920
**Category:** Dashboards
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920 "2019-05-24T08:57:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920/1 "2019-05-24T08:57:15Z")
Basically on all buildbots.
[https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=ParaView](https://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=ParaView)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920/2 "2019-05-24T11:21:12Z")
It seems better, but sometime cdash does not report anything, and I see this in buildbot right now:
```
100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 10
Label Time Summary:
ParaView = 78.78 sec*proc (10 tests)
Total Test time (real) = 79.28 sec
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/common.ctest
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/ctest_extra_options.cmake
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/cmake-version.txt
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/CMakeCache.txt
Submit files
Send to track: merge-requests
SubmitURL: http://open.cdash.org/submit.php?project=ParaView
Submission failed: Cannot connect to the database.
Uploaded: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/Testing/20190524-0816/Test.xml
Errors occurred during submission.
Tests failed!
skipping upload
ctest_upload_file_patterns: ``
ctest_stages: `all`
build_number_errors: `0`
success: `FALSE`
ctest_upload_with_test_failures: `True`
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/common.ctest
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/ctest_extra_options.cmake
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/cmake-version.txt
Add file: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/CMakeCache.txt
Submit files
Send to track: merge-requests
SubmitURL: http://open.cdash.org/submit.php?project=ParaView
Submission failed: Cannot connect to the database.
Uploaded: /home/kitware/Dashboards/buildslave/paraview_master-luigi-linux-shared-release_gui_mpi_python2/build/Testing/20190524-0816/Notes.xml
Errors occurred during submission.
program finished with exit code 0
elapsedTime=3392.634736
```
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920/3 "2019-05-24T14:15:57Z")
@ben.boeckel do you know what’s up?
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920/4 "2019-05-24T14:59:23Z")
This sounds like a CDash thing. I’ll let Zack know.
Update: email sent to sysadmin and Zack
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-error-there-are-modified-or-conflicting-files-in-the-repository/1920/5 "2019-05-24T15:04:46Z")
As for the update errors, that is odd. Buildbot tries _really_ hard to make the source tree pristine. If it persists, I can check it out later.