Re: [fatal error] cannot pread pack file: Input/output error

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 1, 2014, 11:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20140401115326.GC15549@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1396351324120-7607133.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:22:04AM -0700, sunny110 wrote:

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> I wanna build GoldenDict from source, however I get a fattal error when I
> try to clone the repository.
> 
> Here is the recorded session:
> 
>     sunny@s9:~/Programs/goldendict$ git clone
> git://github.com/goldendict/goldendict.git
>     Cloning into 'goldendict'...
>     remote: Reusing existing pack: 11370, done.
>     remote: Counting objects: 7, done.
>     remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
>     remote: Total 11377 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
>     Receiving objects: 100% (11377/11377), 27.17 MiB | 11 KiB/s, done.
>     fatal: cannot pread pack file: Input/output error
>     fatal: index-pack failed 
> 
> So what's the problem? could anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

At the point you see that message, git has received the whole contents from the remote side and written them to disk. It's then trying to read back the data it just wrote to do some checks on it. However, your filesystem has reported a low-level I/O error, which may indicate a disk problem or filesystem corruption.

Is it possible that your disk is dying?

-Peff