From: kevin molcard Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:25:29 GMT Subject: Re: Git clone fails with "bad pack header", how to get remote log Message-ID: <509134D9.1050705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121031141955.GC24291-bBVMEuqLR+SYVEpFpFwlB0AkDMvbqDRI@public.gmane.org> Yes I can, can you tell me how I have to do that? thanks Kevin On 10/31/12 3:19 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 03:57:36PM +0100, kevin molcard wrote: > >> I tried to install git 1.8 on the remote server and get exactly the >> same problem :(. >> [...] >>>> Sometimes (very often when several git clone are sent at the same >>>> time), I have the following error: >>>> remote: internal server error >>>> fatal: protocol error: bad pack header > I'm very confused about who is printing "internal server error". The > "remote:" indicates that it came to the git client via the sideband, > which means it probably came from the stderr of a child process (e.g., > pack-objects). But git does not and has never generated the phrase > "internal server error". > > So what program is producing that? Is there some kind of custom layer > that might be run when upload-pack runs "git pack-objects ..."? Can you > try running strace on the server? > > -Peff > --