phacility/phabricator · error · Exception

Failed to load content file!

Error message

Failed to load content file!

What it means

Error "Failed to load content file!" thrown in phacility/phabricator.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/diffusion/controller/DiffusionBrowseController.php:157

    if ($hit_byte_limit) {
      $corpus = $this->buildErrorCorpus(
        pht(
          'This file is larger than %s byte(s), and too large to display '.
          'in the web UI.',
          phutil_format_bytes($byte_limit)));
    } else if ($hit_time_limit) {
      $corpus = $this->buildErrorCorpus(
        pht(
          'This file took too long to load from the repository (more than '.
          '%s second(s)).',
          new PhutilNumber($time_limit)));
    } else {
      $file = id(new PhabricatorFileQuery())
        ->setViewer($viewer)
        ->withPHIDs(array($file_phid))
        ->executeOne();
      if (!$file) {
        throw new Exception(pht('Failed to load content file!'));
      }

      if ($view === 'raw') {
        return $file->getRedirectResponse();
      }

      $data = $file->loadFileData();

      $lfs_ref = $this->getGitLFSRef($repository, $data);
      if ($lfs_ref) {
        if ($view == 'git-lfs') {
          $file = $this->loadGitLFSFile($lfs_ref);

          // Rename the file locally so we generate a better vanity URI for
          // it. In storage, it just has a name like "lfs-13f9a94c0923...",
          // since we don't get any hints about possible human-readable names
          // at upload time.
          $basename = basename($drequest->getPath());

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/applications/diffusion/controller/DiffusionBrowseController.php:157 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/766c475531a0b556. Report an issue: GitHub.