On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:58:05PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Today I got this: > > > > fatal: failed to read delta base object at 3025976 from > > /home/bfields/local/linux-2.6/.git/objects/pack/pack-f7261d96cf1161b1b0a1593f673a67d0f2469e9b.pack > > > > This has happened once before recently, I believe with a pack that had > > just been created on a recent fetch. (If I remember correctly, this was > > soon after a failed suspend/resume cycle that might have interrupted an > > in-progress fetch; could that possible explain the error?) In that case > > I reset origin/master, deleted a tag or two, and fetched, and the > > problem seemed to be fixed. > > The above error is indicative of a corrupted pack on disk. To confirm > it you could use 'git verify-pack' with the given pack file. That gives: error: Packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-f7261d96cf1161b1b0a1593f673a67d0f2469e9b.pack SHA1 mismatch with itself No surprise, I assume. > With a sufficiently recent git, you only need to copy over another pack > containing the corrupted object, or the object itself in loose form, > into your object store to "fix" it. Yeah, I just did a git repack -a -d in a known good repository and copied the resulting pack over. Seems OK. Thanks. --b. > As to the source of disk corruptions... that's up to you to find the > cause amongst many (including a failed suspend). -- 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
