Re: git-daemon serving repos with repo.git/git-daemon-export-ok

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 3, 2011, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20110103231153.GA10733@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4D224475.1090805@ecosensory.com>

Hi John,

John Griessen wrote:

> john@toolbench:~/EEProjects/test$ git clone git://ecosensory.com/tek_7k_ext.git
> Cloning into tek_7k_ext...
> fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: fata

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> Next I tried changing my command that runs git-daemon
> from
> 
> exec 2>&1
> echo 'git-daemon starting.'
> exec chpst -ugitdaemon \
>   "$(git --exec-path)"/git-daemon --verbose --base-path=/var/cache /var/cache/git

Worrisome. Based on /usr/share/doc/git-daemon-run/README.Debian, I would be interested in:

	git --version
	dpkg -l git-daemon-run
	sv stat git-daemon
	cat /var/log/git-daemon/current

It looks like the daemon is sending a malformed reply starting with "fatal: ", similar to the bug fixed by v1.7.0.3~7 (daemon: parse_host_and_port SIGSEGV if port is specified, 2010-03-20).

It the error message does not provide any insight, I'd also suggest using strace or ltrace to attach to the running git-daemon process to see what's going on.

Thanks for reporting, Jonathan