Re: Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message

From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2013, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <5204E67D.9090106@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5204E018.4000808@gmail.com>

On 08/09/2013 02:27 PM, Ben Tebulin wrote:

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> Hello everybody!
> 
> I have some _very interesting_ news regarding this issue!
> Here is the deal:
> 
>   1. I was able to *reproduce the error on a machine of a coworker!*
> 
>   2. I was able to rule out
>       - HDD: It's reproducible from /dev/shm
>       - Memory: Memory tests works fine
> 
> now the interesting part:
> 
>   3. Occurs on Linux kernels 3.7.10, 3.8.x, 3.9.11, 3.10.5
>      _but not on:_ 3.6.11, 3.5.7 and 2.6.32
> 
> Both machines showing this problem are »Dell Latitude E6330« with an
> »i5-3340M @ 2.70GHz« CPU. Mine running stock kernels, coworker using
> plain Ubuntu 13.04.
> 
> Furthermore I need to stress, that we never had any issues with our
> devices during daily _at all_.
> 
> So what to do best now?

Maybe include the kernel mailing list, they know what's up ;) Linking to the start of the discussion $gmane/33602 Maybe you could also run git through strace and diff the output of a faulty machine with a correct machine?

Stefan