Spacemac update fails "error occurred while switching to version"

[togakangaroo]

Description

When I go to update version of spacemacs it fails

Reproduction guide

• Start Emacs
• On the home screen click "Update Spacemacs"

Observed behaviour:
update fails with the following output to Messages

Getting version information...
You are not on master. This command will switch branches.
Are you sure that you want to switch to version ? (y or n) y
An error occurred while switching to version

Expected behaviour:
Spacemacs updates

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.21
• Spacemacs branch: nil (rev. nil)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(auto-completion emacs-lisp git markdown clojure
                                 (shell :variables shell-default-position 'bottom)
                                 javascript react syntax-checking version-control)

Backtrace

[TheBB]

What's the output of git status in ~/.emacs.d/?

[ChrisJefferson]

I have this problem too:

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

[ChrisJefferson]

Could the problem be related to (when I did a manual git fetch)

9f9faa4...e6357a5 master        -> origin/master  (forced update)

I can't git update to the latest master branch (I could -f it obviously)

[d12frosted]

Closing for inactivity. Let us know if you still experience this issue.