# A sudden lack of permission 5 messages from 2010-09-27 to 2010-09-27. Participants: Ivan Uemlianin, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25261 ## Ivan Uemlianin, 2010-09-27 14:52 Subject: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <4CA0AFC4.1060001@llaisdy.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CA0AFC4.1060001%40llaisdy.com ``` Dear All I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my remote. Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have permission: $ git push ivan@remote.org's password: Counting objects: 19, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done. Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done. Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database ./objects fatal: failed to write object error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) error: failed to push some refs to 'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git' I had sufficient permission even this morning! Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again? The project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos from scratch. With thanks and best wishes Ivan -- ============================================================ Ivan A. Uemlianin Speech Technology Research and Development ivan@llaisdy.com www.llaisdy.com llaisdy.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen" (Schiller, Beethoven) ============================================================ ``` ## Jeff King, 2010-09-27 16:07 Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <20100927160759.GB10256@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100927160759.GB10256%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <4CA0AFC4.1060001@llaisdy.com> ``` On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my > remote. Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have > permission: > > $ git push > ivan@remote.org's password: > Counting objects: 19, done. > Delta compression using up to 2 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done. > Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done. > Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) > error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository > database ./objects > > fatal: failed to write object > error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit > To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git > ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) > error: failed to push some refs to > 'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git' > > I had sufficient permission even this morning! > > Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more > importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again? The > project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos > from scratch. Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box). If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git would fail, but the permissions would appear fine. -Peff ``` ## Ivan Uemlianin, 2010-09-27 16:16 Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <4CA0C36B.5000708@llaisdy.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CA0C36B.5000708%40llaisdy.com In-Reply-To: <20100927160759.GB10256@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` Dear Peff Thanks for your help. Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and add, edit files, etc. There is another person on the box doing sysadmin. I'll ask. Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow? A corrupt push? Best wishes Ivan On 27/09/2010 17:07, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > >> I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my >> remote. Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have >> permission: >> >> $ git push >> ivan@remote.org's password: >> Counting objects: 19, done. >> Delta compression using up to 2 threads. >> Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done. >> Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done. >> Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) >> error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository >> database ./objects >> >> fatal: failed to write object >> error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit >> To ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git >> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) >> error: failed to push some refs to >> 'ivan@remote.org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git' >> >> I had sufficient permission even this morning! >> >> Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more >> importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again? The >> project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos >> from scratch. > Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can > you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions > to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure > out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an > overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box). > > If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git > would fail, but the permissions would appear fine. > > -Peff -- ============================================================ Ivan A. Uemlianin Speech Technology Research and Development ivan@llaisdy.com www.llaisdy.com llaisdy.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen" (Schiller, Beethoven) ============================================================ ``` ## Jeff King, 2010-09-27 16:22 Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <20100927162235.GA10575@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100927162235.GA10575%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <4CA0C36B.5000708@llaisdy.com> ``` On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:16:43PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > Thanks for your help. > > Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and > add, edit files, etc. Did you check specifically the /var/www/git/my_repos.git/objects directory? > Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow? A > corrupt push? I can't imagine a corrupt push would do it. Git shouldn't be changing the permissions on the objects directory at all. -Peff ``` ## Ivan Uemlianin, 2010-09-27 16:30 Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission Message-ID: <4CA0C6A8.8050304@llaisdy.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CA0C6A8.8050304%40llaisdy.com In-Reply-To: <20100927162235.GA10575@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` On 27/09/2010 17:22, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:16:43PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote: > >> Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and >> add, edit files, etc. > Did you check specifically the /var/www/git/my_repos.git/objects > directory? I can add files to the objects directory, but files in subdirectories (eg ff/, info/, pack/) are read only. I have tried pushing to other reposes on the same server and some I can push to some I can't. Ones I /can/ push to, their objects/ff/ etc directories are read only. I'm using git a lot, but as (a) it generally just works and (b) I'm doing very basic things (pull, push, add, commit, status), I know very little about what is really going on. Best wishes Ivan -- ============================================================ Ivan A. Uemlianin Speech Technology Research and Development ivan@llaisdy.com www.llaisdy.com llaisdy.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/in/ivanuemlianin "Froh, froh! Wie seine Sonnen, seine Sonnen fliegen" (Schiller, Beethoven) ============================================================ ```