From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 13:55:52 GMT
Subject: Re: cannot pread pack
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=FDah2SGKzXWxsAv-xxH0SYirt9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <60260.35977.qm@web27605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 02:31, richard parkins <p1rpp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> I'm running under SUSE 11.1 Linux 2.6.27.39-0.2-default #1 SMP 2009-11-23 12:57:38 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux using git version 1.6.0.2, which is the latest built release for SUSE 11.1.

Upgrade Git. The pread() bug was fixed post 1.6.0.2, I don't remember
what version, but I would suggest moving to one of the later 1.7.x
releases.

-- 
Shawn.