On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Lately I've been receiving this error frequently from git.kernel.org: > > Fetching pack (head and objects)... > fatal: unexpected EOF > cg-fetch: fetching pack failed > > What is causing this? Almost any error will cause the pack sending to abort, and the git:// protocol only opens a single socket for data, so there is no way for the other end to say _what_ failed. With git.kernel.org, I suspect the reason for the failure is almost always the same, though: the mirroring is not complete, so it doesn't have all object files. The mirroring from master.kernel.org to the actual public machines is just a rsync script, so there's no atomicity guarantees. That said, it might be a load issue too - I don't know what limits Peter & co put on the git daemons, and it might also be that it's set up to accept at most <n> connections and will close anything else. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html