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Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Feb 28, 2007, 16:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0702280843030.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
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> On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 08:34:18 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:
> >> [...]
> >> Resolving 2210 deltas.
> >> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success [obj[0].offset=39393; obj[1].offset=39602; n=305; obj->size=0; rdy=0; len=207]
> >> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
> >
> >What's "n"? Is that the return value from pread? Or was that "rdy"?
> 
> Yes, n is the value from pread.
Ok, that's just ODD.

Getting 305 bytes back when you asked for 207 is a bad bad bad thing. It's also really really odd and unexpected.

What filesystem? And could you strace this and actually see the pread() system call?

(use "strace -f -o tracefile" to follow all forks and to put the end result in a trace file)

			Linus
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