Git hangs at “Writing objects: 11%”

Hi, everyone,

I've run into a problem that I cannot debug.  I've talked with people at length on IRC, I've made ample use of Google.  I'm getting nowhere.  I'm not even getting any attention on stackexchange (where usually, questions are answered with surprising alacrity).  

This is not the common scenario of Windows and git-daemon that I have seen answered elsewhere. This is Linux to Linux, using ssh. On both the client and server, git version is 1.7.8.6.

I've tried doing the following:

	• Create a local empty repo and push to that -- works fine
	• Pull from local repo to local repo -- works fine
	• Clone the remote repo to the local machine -- works fine
	• git fsck and git gc on both server and client repos
	• Push to pre-existing remote repo -- hangs writing objects at 11%
	• Create empty remote repo and push to that -- hangs writing objects at 2%

There's an env variable I can set to make git produce debug messages. Nothing useful there.

Can anyone here help me figure out what's going wrong?

The post to stackexchange is at:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10740601/cannot-push-to-remote-git-repo-over-ssh-stuck-at-writing-objects-11

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give!