# 'bad file' error updating from Linus 6 messages from 2005-09-22 to 2005-09-23. Participants: walt, porpen@gmail.com, Linus Torvalds, H. Peter Anvin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1910 ## walt, 2005-09-22 11:40 Subject: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/dgu56t%24d2p%241%40sea.gmane.org ``` cg-update this morning is giving me this error: receiving file list ... done v2.6.14-rc2 wrote 134 bytes read 1116 bytes 833.33 bytes/sec total size is 738 speedup is 0.59 Tree change: 044a500e46742d39d22f1781cfb64ba93b463e39:e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d error: unable to find e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d fatal: git-cat-file e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d: bad file error: unable to find e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d fatal: git-cat-file e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d: bad file Invalid tree id: e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d Is this a kernel.org rsync problem, perhaps? (I'm running the latest releases of cogito and git from kernel.org.) ``` ## porpen@gmail.com, 2005-09-22 12:42 Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: <509c8057050922054272b823fe@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/509c8057050922054272b823fe%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` You aren't alone. I had a look at http://www.kernel.org/git/ only to find that the 2.6 kernel has been taken off the list... /me thinks Linus is pushing an update as I type. On a whim, I'll suggest we relax and go get some breakfast. ;-) and try again a little later... Cheers! -P On 9/22/05, walt wrote: > cg-update this morning is giving me this error: > > receiving file list ... done > v2.6.14-rc2 > > wrote 134 bytes read 1116 bytes 833.33 bytes/sec > total size is 738 speedup is 0.59 > Tree change: 044a500e46742d39d22f1781cfb64ba93b463e39:e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d > error: unable to find e98c07b9eabedfb1d7ebef61af475bdebe1dd64d ``` ## walt, 2005-09-22 21:44 Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/dgv8jv%24amv%241%40sea.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <509c8057050922054272b823fe@mail.gmail.com> ``` porpen@gmail.com wrote: > You aren't alone. I had a look at http://www.kernel.org/git/ only to > find that the 2.6 kernel has been taken off the list... /me thinks > Linus is pushing an update as I type... I think it was a disk failure, but no matter -- it's fixed now. For the benefit of future googlers with the same 'bad file' error: After I repeated the cg-update (successfully) I was still left with the 'bad file' error. I tried 'cg-restore' and the error went away. Very nifty! ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2005-09-22 23:32 Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.58.0509221630200.2553%40g5.osdl.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, walt wrote: > > I think it was a disk failure, but no matter -- it's fixed now. Nope, it's not. It just depends on which IP address you happen to get when you look at www.kernel.org. www.kernel.org resolves to two addresses: Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org Address: 204.152.191.5 Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org Address: 204.152.191.37 and the .5 address is working, but the .37 address has the broken mirror. I thought hpa took it out of service while it was re-syncing, but apparently not. Linus ``` ## walt, 2005-09-23 00:56 Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/dgvjs3%244so%241%40sea.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` walt wrote: [...] > After I repeated the cg-update (successfully) I was still left with > the 'bad file' error. I tried 'cg-restore' and the error went away. Oops -- correction! After encountering the same problem on a different machine, I find that 'cg-reset' is the one which fixed the error, not 'cg-restore'. I believe that I tried both commands on the first machine, so I was uncertain which one actually did the fix. ``` ## H. Peter Anvin, 2005-09-23 19:43 Subject: Re: 'bad file' error updating from Linus Message-ID: <43345ACB.1080201@zytor.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/43345ACB.1080201%40zytor.com In-Reply-To: ``` Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Nope, it's not. > > It just depends on which IP address you happen to get when you look at > www.kernel.org. > > www.kernel.org resolves to two addresses: > > Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org > Address: 204.152.191.5 > Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org > Address: 204.152.191.37 > > and the .5 address is working, but the .37 address has the broken mirror. > > I thought hpa took it out of service while it was re-syncing, but > apparently not. > Well, it had resynched, but the time and date stamp on the refs/heads/master file were correct - just the data wrong - so rsync didn't flag the file. I forced rsync --checksum and it's correct now. -hpa ```