Re: git 1.5.3.5 error over NFS
This is the almost same message I cced to lk and nfs, but with Git-interasting parts added.
Bill Lear, Mon, Nov 12, 2007 16:39:15 +0100:
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> On Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 00:21:06 (+0100) Alex Riesen writes:
> >Bill Lear, Fri, Nov 09, 2007 16:31:39 +0100:
> >> I've brought this up before, but I don't recall a resolution to it.
> >>
> >> We have an NFS-mounted filesystem, and git pull is choking on it.
> >>
> >> % uname -a
> >> Linux uhlr.zopyra.com 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
It is a really old kernel... Maybe you could try with some of the recent ones?
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> >> % git --version
> >> git version 1.5.3.5
> >>
> >> % git pull
> >> remote: Generating pack...
> >> remote: Done counting 998 objects.
> >> remote: Result has 836 objects.
> >> remote: Deltifying 836 objects.
> >> remote: 100% (836/836) done
> >> Indexing 836 objects...
> >> remote: Total 836 (delta 526), reused 688 (delta 380)
> >> 100% (836/836) done
> >> Resolving 526 deltas...
> >> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory
> >
> >Could you please strace it? With strace -ff?
> >
> >> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128
> >> fatal: Fetch failure: git://source/repo
> >>
> >> I looked through the archives of this list and did not see a final
> >> resolution, other than a suspected bug in the OS NFS code.
> >
> >Strace, just to be on the safe side
>
> Ok, I've done the strace -ff. It has generated 176 strace.out.<pid>
> files. I have placed a tarball of these files on my home server:
>
> http://www.zopyra.com/~rael/git/git-trace.tar.bz2
>
> The file strace.out.25526 has, at the very end:
>
Yes, this is the file.
I extend the part you quoted. The file is opened here:
open(".git/objects/pack_awOTNW", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 3 write(3, "PACK\0\0\0\2\0\0\3r", 12) = 12 ... lots of data. Counted writes: 488538... write(3, "v\351\247V\325\362\327/\240\265\211\211\322,\261\210\301"..., 4096) = 4096 write(3, "\202\202g\232Bf\211Bf\261Bb\36X\22\4\364\365\25\22\223"..., 1114) = 1114 write(3, "M", 1) = 1
> write(2, "Resolving 551 deltas.\n", 22) = 22
> pread64(3, "", 242, 541) = 0
That's the problem.
"Git-interesting parts"
> write(2, "fatal: ", 7) = 7
> write(2, "cannot pread pack file: Success", 31) = 31
This is strange. The current git should not produce anything like this (and does not, here). The code in question is:
do {
ssize_t n = pread(pack_fd, data + rdy, len - rdy, from + rdy);
if (n <= 0)
die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno));
rdy += n;
} while (rdy < len);Either your strace or that kernel seem to have clobbered errno, too.
> fstat64(0, 0xffff907c) = 0
> open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY) = 4
> fstat64(0x4, 0xffff6810) = 0Interesing. What in git index-pack can read mtab and what for? Is it vanilla Git or have you instrumented it somehow?
> [ Process PID=25347 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
> umovestr: Input/output error
> umovestr: Input/output error
Is it your strace? Do you have anything unusual in syslog?
BTW, you could try defining NO_PREAD in config.mak, and see if it works the problem around for you.
Bill Lear
