From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:54:03 GMT Subject: Re: git problems on Kernel.org? Message-ID: <4324531B.3080209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4323E3C0.1090109@tuxrocks.com> Frank Sorenson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Something appears to be something odd going on with the git repos on > kernel.org, including both the git and linux trees. I believe that I've > tracked down the problem to differences that occur between the repos > located at the various IPs that kernel.org translates to (zeus-pub1: > 204.152.191.5 and zeus-pub2: 204.152.191.37). > > In this case, it appears that the repo located at zeus-pub1 has been > updated, but the changes haven't propagated over to zeus-pub2 yet. The > result is that one call fetches a list of objects, but the next call > goes to the other IP, and it can't find an object it needs, so it ends > up dying. > > This is probably a temporary error that will periodically (and probably > very rarely) occur when pulling from a source with more than a single IP > and some lag before the mirror is updated. > > Is this an issue that we need to watch for and program around (other > than forcing www.kernel.org's IP in /etc/hosts), or is it just one of > those things that should be such a rare occurrance that we shouldn't > have to worry about it? From a gitweb perspective, one of the servers appears to be about 24 hours out of date as of Sun Sep 11 15:50:53 UTC 2005. Broken rsync process?