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Re: git 1.5.3.5 error over NFS

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 23:21 UTC
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<20071109232106.GA3435@steel.home>
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<18228.32091.865519.312011@lisa.zopyra.com>
Bill Lear, Fri, Nov 09, 2007 16:31:39 +0100:
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> I've brought this up before, but I don't recall a resolution to it.
> 
> We have an NFS-mounted filesystem, and git pull is choking on it.
> 
> % uname -a
> Linux uhlr.zopyra.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> % git --version
> git version 1.5.3.5
> 
> % git pull
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 998 objects.
> remote: Result has 836 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 836 objects.
> remote:  100% (836/836) done
> Indexing 836 objects...
> remote: Total 836 (delta 526), reused 688 (delta 380)
>   100% (836/836) done
> Resolving 526 deltas...
> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
Could you please strace it? With strace -ff?
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> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
> fatal: Fetch failure: git://source/repo
> 
> I looked through the archives of this list and did not see a final
> resolution, other than a suspected bug in the OS NFS code.
Strace, just to be on the safe side
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