Re: "fatal: index-pack failed" on git-clone

From: Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago.edu>
Date: Jul 8, 2009, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <102A43B8-AD35-4B1D-850C-3642CEDB2864@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7viqi386th.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago.edu> writes:

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>> $ sudo GIT_TRACE=1 git clone myusername@remote.example.com:/Users/
>> myusername/scientia/scientia.git
>
> I have heard that pseudo resets the PATH so you are invoking "git"  
> from
> one of those standard system PATH, perhaps /usr/bin.
>
>> trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'myusername@remote.example.com:/Users/
>> myusername/scientia/scientia.git'
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /srv/scientia/.git/
>> trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'myusername@remote.example.com' 'git- 
>> upload-
>> pack '\''/Users/myusername/scientia/scientia.git'\'''
>> Password:
>> trace: run_command: 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '--
>> keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com'
>> trace: exec: 'git' 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '--
>> keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com'
>> trace: exec failed: No such file or directory
>> trace: exec 'index-pack' failed: No such file or directory
>
> This is saying that "git" on the local side (the one you are running
> "clone" on) couldn't find its "index-pack" subcommand.  Why?
>
> I think this is an issue with your RHEL5 box, not the MacOS box.  A  
> quick
> check that might be useful is to type:
>
> 	$ git index-pack
> 	$ sudo git index-pack

Here is the result:

=== $ git index-pack usage: git index-pack [-v] [-o <index-file>] [{ ---keep | -- keep=<msg> }] [--strict] { <pack-file> | --stdin [--fix-thin] [<pack- file>] } $ sudo git index-pack usage: git index-pack [-v] [-o <index-file>] [{ ---keep | -- keep=<msg> }] [--strict] { <pack-file> | --stdin [--fix-thin] [<pack- file>] } ===

So git is apparently found. HOWEVER, if I do this, it's a different story:

=== $ which git /usr/local/bin/git $ sudo which git which: no git in (/usr/bin:/bin) ===

On that evidence, I reissued my problem command under sudo, specifying /usr/local/bin/git as the command. That worked. Thank you; I would not have found it without you.

I'm obviously ignorant on the path issue, but that's off-topic for this list.

Thanks again.

	— F