On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:21:50PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > On 27/05/2010 16:38, Jeff King wrote: > >Then the next thing to try is probably (assuming you are running Linux): > Well, kind of: it's CentOS, which I'm finding quite recalcitrant > (e.g. I had to install strace). > > strace -f -e execve git pull > > > >Though I suspect we may just see: > > > > execve("/opt/libexec/git-core/git-core/git-pull", ...) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > > >which doesn't help much. I just want to be sure that is the source of > >the problem. > No, the output is interesting. The permissions denied is from the > erroneous /root install (see separate email): > > [pid 3485] execve("/root/libexec/git-core/git-pull", > ["git-pull"], [/* 18 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > It looks in /opt/bin, but not /opt/libexec. That looks like you are either running wrong git binary (one in /root/bin?) or the git installation is busted. No, the git libexec directory SHOULD NOT be in PATH (git will add it there when needed). -Ilari -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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