Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2007, 16:52 UTC
Message-ID: <17893.45903.748382.298137@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702280843030.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:47:44 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:

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>On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:34:18 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
>> >> [...]
>> >> Resolving 2210 deltas.
>> >> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success [obj[0].offset=39393; obj[1].offset=39602; n=305; obj->size=0; rdy=0; len=207]
>> >> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
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>> >What's "n"? Is that the return value from pread? Or was that "rdy"?
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>> Yes, n is the value from pread.
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>Ok, that's just ODD. 
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>Getting 305 bytes back when you asked for 207 is a bad bad bad thing. It's 
>also really really odd and unexpected.

You may have missed my admission that I screwed up the print: n is 0, obj->size was 305.

>What filesystem? And could you strace this and actually see the pread() 
>system call?

How can I tell which filesystem? It's Linux all around, as far as I know. Here is what mount tells me about this filesystem:

storage:/storage/disk1 on /austin type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.2.192)

>(use "strace -f -o tracefile" to follow all forks and to put the end 
>result in a trace file)

Will do ...

Bill