On 13.11.12 19:55, Ramsay Jones wrote: > Douglas Mencken wrote: >> *Any* git clone fails with: >> >> fatal: premature end of pack file, 106 bytes missing >> fatal: index-pack failed >> >> At first, I tried 1.8.0, and it failed. Then I tried to build 1.7.10.5 >> then, and it worked. Then I tried 1.7.12.2, but it fails the same way >> as 1.8.0. >> So I decided to git bisect. >> >> b8a2486f1524947f232f657e9f2ebf44e3e7a243 is the first bad commit >> ``index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving'' > > This looks like the same problem I had on cygwin, which lead to > commit c0f86547c ("index-pack: Disable threading on cygwin", 26-06-2012). > > I didn't notice which platform you are on, but maybe you also have a > thread-unsafe pread()? Could you try re-building git with the > NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD build variable set? > > HTH. > > ATB, > Ramsay Jones This is interesting. I had the same problem on a PowerPC (Old PowerBook G4 running Linux). Using NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD helped, thanks for the hint. (After recompiling without NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD I could clone from this machine again, so the problem is not really reproducable) Are there more people running PowerPC (on the server side) ? /Torsten -- 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