From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:57:13 GMT Subject: Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success" Message-ID: <20070228035713.GC5597@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <17892.64236.443170.43061@lisa.zopyra.com> Bill Lear wrote: > Using 1.5.0.1. Can't see what is wrong with this clone... ... > 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. What platform is this? index-pack failed to read using pread(), but the error code in errno was 0 (success)? Huh? It turns out this is steaming from a short read; we asked for some length of bytes but did not get that exact value. That sounds like the packfile is truncated. Ohh - is this repository on NFS, or some other sort of network filesystem? Maybe the FS couldn't give us the entire pread request in one shot... I think the pread() in get_data_from_pack of index-pack is wrong, it really should be looping until we fill the buffer in case the OS doesn't fully satisfy our read request the first time. -- Shawn.