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Buildbarn CAS NOT_FOUND

Reviewed Jul 20, 20262 primary sources

A requested digest is absent from the content-addressable store visible to the requesting component. The digest may never have arrived, may have been evicted, or may be inaccessible through the active storage path.

Common causes

  • An input upload did not complete before execution
  • Storage eviction removed a blob still referenced elsewhere
  • Replicas or storage tiers are inconsistent
  • A proxy or routing configuration points clients and workers at different stores

What to check

  1. Identify the missing digest and the component requesting it
  2. Trace the corresponding upload or ByteStream write
  3. Check storage eviction and replication health
  4. Confirm clients, schedulers, and workers resolve the intended CAS endpoint

Primary sources

Use these references to confirm protocol and version-specific behavior.

Investigate with build-level evidence

Hermetiq correlates Bazel actions, cache behavior, Buildbarn infrastructure, and remote-execution timing so teams can move from a status code to the build and system behavior behind it.

Technical review: July 20, 2026 · Verify flags and behavior against the Bazel and Buildbarn versions deployed in your environment.