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Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer

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RBRandy Brandenburg <randy.brandenburg@woh.rr.com>
Date
Jun 1, 2011, 14:16 UTC
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<loom.20110601T161508-689@post.gmane.org>

I have searched high and low to find a resolution to this error I am seeing when attempting to push or pull from a repository (either remote or on the same machine). The error reported is as follows:

# git push error: cannot create thread: Unknown error fatal: fetch-pack: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer Broken pipe

# git pull error: cannot create thread: Unknown error fatal: receive-pack: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer Broken pipe 

This is a Solaris 9 installation (git-1.7.5-sol9-sparc-local.gz obtained from 
Sunfreeware.com) including all of the required package dependencies listed. 
I followed the same install on a Solaris 10 box and have no issues. Not sure if 
this is a permissions issue or something not configured 
correctly.
 
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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