Build Failure: The path passed to gatsby-source-filesystem does not exist on your file system

I am getting a deployment failure when trying to build my site. It seems to stem from the following lines in the log:

9:21:24 AM: The path passed to gatsby-source-filesystem does not exist on your file system:
9:21:24 AM: /opt/build/repo/src/images/galleries/
9:21:24 AM: Please pick a path to an existing directory.

The path is to a collection of image folders. I’m wondering if this might be an issue with the limit of image files allowed ? The gatsby build command runs successfully locally, so I am currently stumped with the error. Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you

The site is kind-aryabhata-547ae6

The entire build log below:

9:20:13 AM: Build ready to start
9:20:15 AM: build-image version: 2dbd444fcdce00cf06325060a8238d5ae3e86774
9:20:15 AM: build-image tag: v3.3.7
9:20:15 AM: buildbot version: 901ee546b8b58e3bf9bdb8b69f0521510bb8ca29
9:20:15 AM: Fetching cached dependencies
9:20:16 AM: Failed to fetch cache, continuing with build
9:20:16 AM: Starting to prepare the repo for build
9:20:16 AM: No cached dependencies found. Cloning fresh repo
9:20:16 AM: git clone https://github.com/truehello/gatsby-photography-tailwind
9:20:26 AM: Preparing Git Reference refs/heads/master
9:20:28 AM: Starting build script
9:20:28 AM: Installing dependencies
9:20:29 AM: Downloading and installing node v10.20.0...
9:20:29 AM: Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.20.0/node-v10.20.0-linux-x64.tar.xz...
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9:20:34 AM: Using ruby version 2.6.2
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9:20:37 AM: gpg: Signature made Fri 14 Jun 2019 06:55:58 PM UTC using RSA key ID 69475BAA
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9:20:40 AM: [2/4] Fetching packages...
9:21:05 AM: info fsevents@2.1.2: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
9:21:05 AM: info "fsevents@2.1.2" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
9:21:05 AM: info fsevents@1.2.11: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
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9:21:05 AM: [3/4] Linking dependencies...
9:21:05 AM: warning "gatsby > react-hot-loader@4.12.20" has unmet peer dependency "@types/react@^15.0.0 || ^16.0.0".
9:21:05 AM: warning "gatsby > @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin > tsutils@3.17.1" has unmet peer dependency "typescript@>=2.8.0 || >= 3.2.0-dev || >= 3.3.0-dev || >= 3.4.0-dev || >= 3.5.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-beta || >= 3.7.0-dev || >= 3.7.0-beta".
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9:21:20 AM: NPM modules installed using Yarn
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9:21:20 AM: unset GOOS;
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9:21:20 AM: export GOROOT='/opt/buildhome/.gimme/versions/go1.12.linux.amd64';
9:21:20 AM: export PATH="/opt/buildhome/.gimme/versions/go1.12.linux.amd64/bin:${PATH}";
9:21:20 AM: go version >&2;
9:21:20 AM: export GIMME_ENV='/opt/buildhome/.gimme/env/go1.12.linux.amd64.env';
9:21:20 AM: go version go1.12 linux/amd64
9:21:20 AM: Installing missing commands
9:21:20 AM: Verify run directory
9:21:20 AM: Executing user command: yarn build
9:21:21 AM: yarn run v1.17.0
9:21:21 AM: $ gatsby build
9:21:23 AM: success open and validate gatsby-configs - 0.064s
9:21:24 AM: success load plugins - 0.911s
9:21:24 AM: success onPreInit - 0.003s
9:21:24 AM: success delete html and css files from previous builds - 0.015s
9:21:24 AM: success initialize cache - 0.009s
9:21:24 AM: success copy gatsby files - 0.089s
9:21:24 AM: success onPreBootstrap - 0.036s
9:21:24 AM: success createSchemaCustomization - 0.010s
9:21:24 AM: error
9:21:24 AM: The path passed to gatsby-source-filesystem does not exist on your file system:
9:21:24 AM: /opt/build/repo/src/images/galleries/
9:21:24 AM: Please pick a path to an existing directory.
9:21:24 AM: See docs here - https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-filesystem/
9:21:24 AM: not finished source and transform nodes - 0.045s
9:21:25 AM: error Command failed with exit code 1.
9:21:25 AM: info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
9:21:25 AM: Skipping functions preparation step: no functions directory set
9:21:25 AM: Caching artifacts
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9:21:25 AM: Finished saving node modules
9:21:25 AM: Started saving yarn cache
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving yarn cache
9:21:25 AM: Started saving pip cache
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving pip cache
9:21:25 AM: Started saving emacs cask dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving emacs cask dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Started saving maven dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving maven dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Started saving boot dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving boot dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Started saving go dependencies
9:21:25 AM: Finished saving go dependencies
9:21:32 AM: Error running command: Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1
9:21:32 AM: Failing build: Failed to build site
9:21:32 AM: failed during stage 'building site': Build script returned non-zero exit code: 1
9:21:32 AM: Finished processing build request in 1m16.586546629s

hi there,

the issue definitely is that this folder:

9:21:24 AM: /opt/build/repo/src/images/galleries/

does not exist. We don’t have a limit on the amount of images that can exist (it is more a practical limit that we don’t allow your build to run for more than 15 minutes, but you quite far away from that).

The reason as to why that folder doesn’t exist I can’t say. It could be a naming mismatch, it could be a case sensitivity issue?

but i think if you figure out why that directory isn’t available, you’ll be able to fix your problem.

This might be helpful - if you download your deploy, maybe you can tell what is being generated as opposed to what you think is getting generated?

It was a case sensitivity issue. galleries needed to be Galleries. Thank you so much.

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Perfect! it’s often the culprit. glad its working now :+1: