Bug: "the repository is corrupted, it is missing pack blobs with index-referenced content"

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For context, this is coming hot off another problem that I still have, where maintenance failed due to `error rewriting contents in short packs: failed to rewrite 1 contents`. This led me on process in which I found out that I was getting read errors on folders that had 0 size. So following in the page for repairing corruption, I deleted them and ran some variant of kopia snapshot fix invalid-files --verify-files-percent=100 --commit.

I thought my troubles would be over so I neglected to record the exact error I had, but for reference I was dealing with a similar problem of missing blobs that people in this post had.

When conducting kopia content verify, I get the following error:

kopia content verify
Listing blobs...
  10000 blobs...
  20000 blobs...
  30000 blobs...
  40000 blobs...
Listed 46695 blobs.
Verifying contents...
  Verified 1 of 959588 contents (0.0%), 0 errors, remaining 1434h20m59s, ETA 2026-10-06 13:37:42 PDT
content 16ac4cbd74d63c8efa70a902602fb0ec depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content 1e58cf9e7eff2b9b5feb6058dfc650dd depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content 28cbb7c68978f2dc946ee11e2b12cbde depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content 3c6a3c860e98c1c73d3d7d60cb5b5ccb depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content 423e408e2ac3f36db074441942eeef91 depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content 8bbce0fe6b2d73a5bc616f33f6335ef4 depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content aea0ca75c8d6d4e94301d1d1e34e44e2 depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content be8fbf90aed00bc5af605675df6e951d depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
content fa9bc35111d4a4cd36da6fc731294e8c depends on missing blob pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139
  Verified 931053 of 959588 contents (97.0%), 9 errors, remaining 0s, ETA 2026-08-07 19:16:46 PDT
Finished verifying contents
verifyCounters: {"verifiedContents":959588,"totalErrorCount":9,"contentsInMissingPacks":9,"contentsInTruncatedPacks":0,"unreadableContents":0,"readContents":0,"missingPacks":1,"truncatedPacks":0,"corruptedPacks":0}
missingPack     {"packID":"pe1521cc085f7b8019ddc344005190665-s5be91b0a2c103ffe139","numberOfReferencedContents":9}
verify contents: encountered 9 errors: the repository is corrupted, it is missing pack blobs with index-referenced content

Now this is an error, that from my sleuthing around, I could not find someone else that had (feel free to correct me if I am wrong). This seems to be related to my journey trying to remove the supposedly corrupted folders with 0 size as mentioned earlier. Could someone help me with the next steps for resolving this?

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Ok so after doing another snapshot, kopia snapshot verify & kopia content verify both return no errors, yet maintenance still fails on the same error

kopia maintenance run --full
Running full maintenance...
GC found 204155 unused contents (399.7 GB)
GC found 0 unused contents that are too recent to delete (0 B)
GC found 788950 in-use contents (618.1 GB)
GC found 41 in-use system-contents (39.1 KB)
GC undeleted 0 contents (0 B)
Finished full maintenance.
error rewriting contents in short packs: failed to rewrite 1 contents