måndag 23 juli 2007 skrev Linus Torvalds: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Michal Rokos wrote: > > > > fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory (n=0, > > errno=2, fd=3, ptr=40452958, len=428, rdy=0, off=123601) > > Ok, that's bogus. When "n" is zero, the errno (and thus the error string) > is not changed by pread, so that's a very misleading error report. > > So what seems to have happened is that the pack-file is too short, so we > got a return value of 0, and then reported it as if it had an errno. > > The reason for returning zero from pread would be: > > - broken pread. I don't think HPUX should be a problem, so that's > probably not it. > > - the pack-file got truncated > > - the offset is corrupt, and points to beyond the size of the packfile. > > In this case, since the offset is just 123601, I suspect it's a truncation > issue, and your pack-file is simply corrupt. Either because of some > problem with receiving it, or because of problems on the remote side. > > > fetch-pack from 'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git' failed. > > One thing to look out for is that the "git.kernel.org" machines aren't the > "primary" ones, and the data gets mirrored from other machines. If the > mirroring is incomplete, I could imagine that the remote side simply ended > up terminating the connection, and you ended up with a partial pack-file. > > Some of the kernel.org machines ran out of disk space the other day, so > maybe you happened to hit it in an unlucky window. Does it still happen? Does cygwin have the same pread problem then.. ? after make NO_PREAD=1 with 1.5.2.4 clone works. Here is my output with pread. Note that I'm cloning from or.cz, not kernel.org . $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/git.git GIT Initialized empty Git repository in /roro/GIT/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 56038 objects. remote: Deltifying 56038 objects... remote: 100% (56038/56038) done Indexing 56038 objects... remote: Total 56038 (delta 39190), reused 52555 (delta 36164) 100% (56038/56038) done Resolving 39190 deltas... fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory fatal: index-pack died with error code 128 fetch-pack from 'git://repo.or.cz/git.git' failed. -- robin - 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
