On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:47:08AM +0000, Krishna Vivek Vitta wrote: > We've seen multiple reports of git repositories failing to clone / getting > corrupted in p9 file system. The mount points under this file system are > marked for FANOTIFY to intercept file system events > > When we remove the marking on these mount points, git clone succeeds. > > Following is the error message: [...] > fatal: unknown error occurred while reading the configuration files > > Any reason why it is failing? [...] Are you able to build Git from the source? As you can see in config.c, the error is reported in repo_read_config in the case the function config_with_options, it calls, fails. Since it's not expected to fail - except for some weird reasons, - you're probably dealing with such a reason, and so you'd probably need to debug it yourself because I hardly beleive it's easily possible for someone else to recreate your specific setup. The debugging might be a simple "printf-style" one - that is, navigate the call chain of these configuration-reading functions, stick calls to printf() in places where some nested function returns a value indicating an error exit, build, run, and see which of these printf() calls pinpoints the failure. You will probably trace this to call to some C-library I/O function.
