duplicate init on gun causes corrupted state

[lewiada-zz]

After initializing a GUN and publishing the local trusted collection, repeating this process seems to result in a corrupted state. For example:

notary init server.example.com/test1
notary publish server.example.com/test1
Successfully published changes for repository docker.mot-solutions.com/adam/iwan412

notary init server.example.com/test1
notary publish server.example.com/test1

• fatal: could not rotate trust to a new trusted root: failed to validate data with current trusted certificates

I don't feel there should be a use case to initialize a GUN twice, so the client/server should do a check to make sure it hasn't already been initialized before proceeding.

[endophage]

Hey @lewiada, it's only a locally corrupted state right? You should be able to fix it with a notary remove server.example.com/test1.

The fix I want to get in for this is lazy initialization where one no longer has to explicitly call notary init. As part of lazy initialization, we would always query the server for existing data before assuming it needs to be created locally.

A shorter term fix may be to check the server, or if network connectivity isn't available, the local cache, for existing data. At the moment I believe init assumes the repo doesn't exist and overwrites any existing cache.

[lewiada-zz]

@endophage, I can't do that because there isn't a target yet. The GUN has been initialized, but nothing has been added to the collection.

I think your last point is where the issue is. I think init should first check the server to see if a collection has been initialized, and inform the user if it already has, and only create it if it hasn't.

[endophage]

notary remove only communicates with the server if you pass the -r option. Without that it should just clear local cache.

[lewiada-zz]

but remove requires two params: 1) gun, 2) target
it's not an issue of local vs. server, it's that i've only done an init and nothing has been added. so I have no target to pass

[endophage]

Sorry, having a brainfart: notary delete