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Re: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2012, 21:45 UTC
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Lars Winterfeld <lars.winterfeld@tu-ilmenau.de> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> I have used git for some time and regularly pushed changes to another
> server (as some kind of backup), but today I got this error during
> git push`:
>
> Counting objects: 1293, done.
> Compressing objects: 100% (1027/1027), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (1229/1229), 70.83 MiB | 364 KiB/s, done.
> Total 1229 (delta 343), reused 0 (delta 0)
> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory

Curious. That is typically given for ENOENT but pread(2) would not give that error according to

  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pread.html

You didn't say what platform you are seeing the issue (the receiving end of the "push"), but are you using Git on a pread-deficient platform with emulation perhaps?

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  1. Lars WinterfeldJul 2, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2012
  3. Jeff KingJul 2, 2012
  4. Andreas SchwabJul 2, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 2, 2012
  6. Jeff KingJul 3, 2012
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJul 3, 2012
  8. Jeff KingJul 3, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  11. Lars WinterfeldAug 16, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2012
  13. Lars WinterfeldAug 16, 2012
  14. Jeff KingAug 17, 2012
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