On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:03:13PM -0700, Lars Winterfeld wrote: > I have used git for some time and regularly pushed changes to another > server (as some kind of backup), but today I got this error during > `git push`: > > Counting objects: 1293, done. > Compressing objects: 100% (1027/1027), done. > Writing objects: 100% (1229/1229), 70.83 MiB | 364 KiB/s, done. > Total 1229 (delta 343), reused 0 (delta 0) > fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory > error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit > To user@host:~/path/ > ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) > error: failed to push some refs to 'user@host:~/path/' > > I found similar bug reports suggesting to upgrade too version 1.7.x, > but I am already using git version 1.7.5.4. Can somebody explain to > me what this error is about? What can I do to resolve it / is there a > workaround? It's very odd for pread to report ENOENT (since it is always operating on an already-opened file descriptor). Older versions of git would sometimes sometimes report errno even when we get a return of 0 (when errno is bogus, and they should say "truncated file" or similar), but that was long ago fixed in fb74243 (Do not use errno when pread() returns 0, 2008-10-06). There was also an actual bug fixed by a91d49c (index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete., 2007-02-27) that I think could also generate this error. What OS is the server running? Is it using NFS? Are you sure that the server version is also v1.7.5.4? -Peff -- 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