Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

Using 1.5.0.1.  Can't see what is wrong with this clone...

% df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
store:/storage/disk1
                      682G  113G  535G  18% /austin

% git clone --bare ~/devel/project
Initialized empty Git repository in /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 4589 objects.
remote: Deltifying 4589 objects.
 100% (4589/4589) done89) done
Indexing 4589 objects.
remote: Total 4589 (delta 2209), reused 4589 (delta 2209)
 100% (4589/4589) done
Resolving 2209 deltas.
fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success
fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
fetch-pack from '/home/rael/devel/project/.git' failed.

% mkdir project % touch project/foo % ls -l project/foo -rw-r--r-- 1 rael software 0 Feb 27 21:44 project/foo % rm -rf project

% cd ~/devel % df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 186G 82G 95G 47% /home % mkdir test % cd test

% git clone --bare ~/devel/project
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/rael/test/project/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 4589 objects.
remote: Deltifying 4589 objects.
  7Indexing 4589 objects. done
 100% (4589/4589) done89) done4589) done
remote: Total 4589 (delta 2209), reused 4589 (delta 2209)
 100% (4589/4589) done
Resolving 2209 deltas.
 100% (2209/2209) done

This happens repeatedly.  git fsck of my repo shows no problems.

Anything else I can check?

Bill