Hello everybody! I have some _very interesting_ news regarding this issue! Here is the deal: 1. I was able to *reproduce the error on a machine of a coworker!* 2. I was able to rule out - HDD: It's reproducible from /dev/shm - Memory: Memory tests works fine now the interesting part: 3. Occurs on Linux kernels 3.7.10, 3.8.x, 3.9.11, 3.10.5 _but not on:_ 3.6.11, 3.5.7 and 2.6.32 Both machines showing this problem are »Dell Latitude E6330« with an »i5-3340M @ 2.70GHz« CPU. Mine running stock kernels, coworker using plain Ubuntu 13.04. Furthermore I need to stress, that we never had any issues with our devices during daily _at all_. So what to do best now? - Ben Am 08.08.2013 19:38, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>>> Can you try to reproduce with a version older than v1.8.3? >>>> E.g. v1.8.2.3. >>> >>> It seems to run 'much better' >>> v1.8.2.3 : 3/10 runs do fail >>> fb56570 : 9/10 runs do fail [..] >>> They always fail on a big blob (39MB) as I wrote in my first e-mail: >>> >>> ben@n179 /tmp/project.git $ ~/projects/git.git/git-show 49cdd0b21a351f3366008615d2cf8d03ca943978 | wc -c >>> error: sha1 mismatch 49cdd0b21a351f3366008615d2cf8d03ca943978 >>> fatal: bad object 49cdd0b21a351f3366008615d2cf8d03ca943978 >>> 0 >>> ben@n179 /tmp/project.git $ ~/projects/git.git/git-show 49cdd0b21a351f3366008615d2cf8d03ca943978 | wc -c >>> 39517156 > > Hmm, from this, and a later one ... > > ... I am reading that (1) the packfile and repository is basically > OK, (2) reading that object sometimes fails, and (3) the symptom is > not limited to fsck but anything that reads the object with > parse_object(). And that symptom exists only on that single machine > (I am assuming that the repository was bit-for-bit copied, not > "cloned", for the purpose of testing it on the other machine). That > makes me suspect something outside the control of Git (e.g. faulty > memory or disk controller cable). > > Are there other big blobs in the repository, and would "show | wc" fail > if you attempt to read it on that machine? -- 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