From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:47:44 GMT Subject: Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <17893.44936.525606.74693@lisa.zopyra.com> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > 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