From: Ivan Uemlianin Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:16:43 GMT Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <4CA0C36B.5000708@llaisdy.com> In-Reply-To: <20100927160759.GB10256@sigill.intra.peff.net> Dear Peff Thanks for your help. Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and add, edit files, etc. There is another person on the box doing sysadmin. I'll ask. Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow? A corrupt push? Best wishes Ivan On 27/09/2010 17:07, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > >> I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my >> remote. Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have >> permission: >> >> $ git push >> ivan@remote.org's password: >> Counting objects: 19, done. >> Delta compression using up to 2 threads. >> Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done. >> Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done. >> Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) >> error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository >> database ./objects >> >> fatal: failed to write object >> error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit >> To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git >> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) >> error: failed to push some refs to >> 'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git' >> >> I had sufficient permission even this morning! >> >> Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more >> importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again? The >> project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos >> from scratch. > Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can > you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions > to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure > out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an > overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box). > > If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git > would fail, but the permissions would appear fine. > > -Peff -- ============================================================ Ivan A. Uemlianin Speech Technology Research and Development ivan@llaisdy.com www.llaisdy.com llaisdy.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen" (Schiller, Beethoven) ============================================================