sxyazi/yazi · error

ctime not available

Error message

ctime not available

What it means

Cha::ctime_dur converts the file's change time to a Duration since the Unix epoch and bails when ctime is None. ctime is normally populated on Unix, but some filesystems/API paths leave it unset, in which case the Option is None. Called by add_fields when emitting file metadata fields.

Source

Thrown at yazi-fs/src/cha/cha.rs:194

			Ok(atime.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)?)
		} else {
			bail!("atime not available");
		}
	}

	pub(crate) fn btime_dur(self) -> anyhow::Result<Duration> {
		if let Some(btime) = self.btime {
			Ok(btime.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)?)
		} else {
			bail!("btime not available");
		}
	}

	pub(crate) fn ctime_dur(self) -> anyhow::Result<Duration> {
		if let Some(ctime) = self.ctime {
			Ok(ctime.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)?)
		} else {
			bail!("ctime not available");
		}
	}

	pub fn mtime_dur(self) -> anyhow::Result<Duration> {
		if let Some(mtime) = self.mtime {
			Ok(mtime.duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)?)
		} else {
			bail!("mtime not available");
		}
	}
}

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Solutions

1. Check ctime availability (cha.ctime.is_some()) before calling and skip the field when None.
2. Fall back to mtime for change-time display.
3. Fix the platform metadata collection path so ctime gets populated.

Example fix

// before
fields.insert("ctime", cha.ctime_dur()?.as_millis());
// after
if let Ok(ctime) = cha.ctime_dur() {
    fields.insert("ctime", ctime.as_millis());
}

if cha.ctime().is_none() { /* skip field or use mtime */ }

fn has_ctime(cha: Cha) -> bool { cha.ctime().is_some() }

let ctime = cha.ctime_dur().ok().or_else(|| cha.mtime_dur().ok());

When it happens

Trigger: Calling ctime_dur() (e.g. from add_fields) on a Cha whose ctime was never populated — typically platform-specific code paths where the underlying stat metadata did not include ctime.

Common situations: FUSE/virtual filesystems that report incomplete stat data; platform abstractions that return None for ctime; synthetic Cha values built manually without ctime.

Related errors

• atime not available
• btime not available
• mtime not available
• Failed to join new name with CWD
• Cannot create file at root

AI-assisted analysis of sxyazi/yazi@5f901b886b (2026-09-02). Data as JSON: /api/errors/3efae4c281789768. Report an issue: GitHub.