Symfony assetic:dump runtime exception

Question

I'm stepping into deploying my Symfony app using Capifony. When Capifony executes assetic:dump I get a runtime Exception.

[RuntimeException]
Unable to write file {path}/releases/20130314071536/app/../web/js/.

I tried executing the command manually and get the same Exception.
Then I tried the command using the --verbose parameter and realized that all files with a source path that has a dot in it where written without the file name, only the extension. The Exception comes up when hitting a file name with no extension (Makefile in this case) and trying to write the file "." (only a dot).

On another domain on the same server I have the exactly same code but deployed manually. There I don't get this error. So it can't be a problem with PHP version. I also checked Assetic and Assetic-Bundle versions and they are the same.

What could be the cause of assetic working different?

EDIT:
I forgot to mention that it also works correctly on my development machine.

EDIT 2:
It starts failing on file

EDIT 3:
I just realized that it works fine for dev environment... but for --env=prod it gives the problem arises

web/bundles/assets/assets/images/icons/aws.png

a file I'm not using in any template

Stacktrace from the error

Exception trace:
 () at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/assetic-bundle/Symfony/Bundle/AsseticBundle/Command/DumpCommand.php:249
 Symfony\Bundle\AsseticBundle\Command\DumpCommand->doDump() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/assetic-bundle/Symfony/Bundle/AsseticBundle/Command/DumpCommand.php:187
 Symfony\Bundle\AsseticBundle\Command\DumpCommand->dumpAsset() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/assetic-bundle/Symfony/Bundle/AsseticBundle/Command/DumpCommand.php:64
 Symfony\Bundle\AsseticBundle\Command\DumpCommand->execute() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Command/Command.php:238
 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:192
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Console/Application.php:78
 Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Console\Application->doRun() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Application.php:105
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at /home/yanic.info/domains/pe.yanic.info/public_html/releases/20130318143912/app/console:33

config.yml

# Twig Configuration
twig:
    debug:            %kernel.debug%
    strict_variables: %kernel.debug%
    form:
        resources: [HomeBundle:Form:fields.html.twig]
# Assetic Configuration
assetic:
    write_to: "%kernel.root_dir%/../web"
    debug:          %kernel.debug%
    use_controller: false
    bundles:        ['YanicSecurityBundle','HomeBundle','UsersBundle','CmsBundle','AssetsBundle','FormBundle','TranslationBundle','EventBundle','ShopBundle','NewsletterBundle','IssueBundle','ProjectBundle']
    filters:
        cssrewrite: ~

EDIT 4:
When searching for aws.png (the first result to be broken) there are 2 results inside the cache files:

/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/symfony-standard-2.1/app/cache/dev/appDevUrlGenerator.php:
  112          '_assetic_e4d7f8d' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => 'e4d7f8d',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/assets/images/icons/arrow_rotate_clockwise.png',    ),  ),),
  113          '_assetic_e4d7f8d_0' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => 'e4d7f8d',    'pos' => '0',    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/assets/images/icons/arrow_rotate_clockwise_arrow_rotate_clockwise_1.png',    ),  ),),
  114:         '_assetic_e1ec2e3' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => 'e1ec2e3',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/assets/images/icons/aws.png',    ),  ),),
  115          '_assetic_e1ec2e3_0' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => 'e1ec2e3',    'pos' => '0',    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/assets/images/icons/aws_aws_1.png',    ),  ),),
  116          '_assetic_490c282' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '490c282',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/assets/images/icons/cancel.png',    ),  ),),
  ...
  874          '_assetic_13192a1' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '13192a1',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/images/icons/arrow_rotate_clockwise.png',    ),  ),),
  875          '_assetic_13192a1_0' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '13192a1',    'pos' => '0',    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/images/icons/arrow_rotate_clockwise_arrow_rotate_clockwise_1.png',    ),  ),),
  876:         '_assetic_3d6d4c9' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '3d6d4c9',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/images/icons/aws.png',    ),  ),),
  877          '_assetic_3d6d4c9_0' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '3d6d4c9',    'pos' => '0',    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/images/icons/aws_aws_1.png',    ),  ),),
  878          '_assetic_5ea17b1' => array (  0 =>   array (  ),  1 =>   array (    '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',    'name' => '5ea17b1',    'pos' => NULL,    '_format' => 'png',  ),  2 =>   array (  ),  3 =>   array (    0 =>     array (      0 => 'text',      1 => '/js/images/icons/cancel.png',    ),  ),),

/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/symfony-standard-2.1/app/cache/dev/appDevUrlMatcher.php:
  517  
  518          // _assetic_e1ec2e3
  519:         if ($pathinfo === '/js/assets/images/icons/aws.png') {
  520              return array (  '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',  'name' => 'e1ec2e3',  'pos' => NULL,  '_format' => 'png',  '_route' => '_assetic_e1ec2e3',);
  521          }
  ...
 4327  
 4328          // _assetic_3d6d4c9
 4329:         if ($pathinfo === '/js/images/icons/aws.png') {
 4330              return array (  '_controller' => 'assetic.controller:render',  'name' => '3d6d4c9',  'pos' => NULL,  '_format' => 'png',  '_route' => '_assetic_3d6d4c9',);
 4331          

EDIT 5:
As recommended by @cheesemacfly I removed the hearsay_require_js bundle and the issue is gone. Now that I know what to blame for the error, I'd need to know why it does only happen on the staging server and when deploying with Capifony.

Answer 1

Try recreating your cache directories.

You can get all sort of weird behaviour when your cache is out-of-sync.

To clear your cache:

rm -rf app/cache/*

sudo chmod +a "www-data allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache
sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache

or

rm -rf app/cache/*

sudo setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX app/cache
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:`whoami`:rwx app/cache