# unexpected EOF? 3 messages from 2005-12-01 to 2005-12-01. Participants: Jon Loeliger, Tim O'Callaghan, Linus Torvalds. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2722 ## Jon Loeliger, 2005-12-01 13:42 Subject: unexpected EOF? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/E1EhohG-0001iZ-IB%40jdl.com ``` I thought I had imagined this last time, but now that it has happened twice, I'm not so sure what is going on. First pull attempt garners an unexpected EOF message; immediately pull again seems to work. Some state: jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git --version git version 0.99.9j jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ cat .git/remotes/origin URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ Pull: master:origin Pull: todo:todo Pull: maint:maint Pull: pu:pu And the error capture: jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin fatal: unexpected EOF Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin Unpacking 17 objects 100% (17/17) done * committish: d175455acaaba6bd39dd2d5ec71961bf238f06d4 branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * refs/heads/todo: same as branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git* committish: 93dcab2937624ebb97f91807576cddb242a55a46 branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * refs/heads/maint: same as branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * committish: b34403aa97047f90c0cdd5177e63a8e7530e3388 branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * refs/heads/origin: same as branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * committish: 6e35634a4d595d554423b04438bfa8b523414c54 branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git * refs/heads/pu: does not fast forward to branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git; not updating. Already up-to-date. ``` ## Tim O'Callaghan, 2005-12-01 13:49 Subject: Re: unexpected EOF? Message-ID: <20051201134917.GH2188@ELSAMSW37164> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20051201134917.GH2188%40ELSAMSW37164 In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:42:02AM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > I thought I had imagined this last time, but now > that it has happened twice, I'm not so sure what > is going on. First pull attempt garners an > unexpected EOF message; immediately pull again > seems to work. > > Some state: > > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git --version > git version 0.99.9j > > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ cat .git/remotes/origin > URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ > Pull: master:origin > Pull: todo:todo > Pull: maint:maint > Pull: pu:pu > > And the error capture: > > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin > fatal: unexpected EOF > Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin > Unpacking 17 objects > 100% (17/17) done > * committish: d175455acaaba6bd39dd2d5ec71961bf238f06d4 > branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * refs/heads/todo: same as branch 'todo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git* committish: 93dcab2937624ebb97f91807576cddb242a55a46 > branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * refs/heads/maint: same as branch 'maint' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * committish: b34403aa97047f90c0cdd5177e63a8e7530e3388 > branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * refs/heads/origin: same as branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * committish: 6e35634a4d595d554423b04438bfa8b523414c54 > branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git > * refs/heads/pu: does not fast forward to branch 'pu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git; > not updating. > Already up-to-date. I noticed this myself this morning. It happened twice, then after leaving it for a minute or two, it worked. Possibly traffic problems to kernel.org? I should also report that if a spurious lockfile exists (under cygwin at least), git just dies with the cryptic "unable to create new cachefile". Tim. "I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of supreme poverty." -- Groucho Marx ``` ## Linus Torvalds, 2005-12-01 18:40 Subject: Re: unexpected EOF? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0512011036120.3099%40g5.osdl.org In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > I thought I had imagined this last time, but now > that it has happened twice, I'm not so sure what > is going on. First pull attempt garners an > unexpected EOF message; immediately pull again > seems to work. > > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin > fatal: unexpected EOF > Fetch failure: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ > jdl@ubuntu:/usr/src/git-core$ git pull origin > Unpacking 17 objects The public kernel.org machines are actually _two_ different machines, and have two different addresses: Non-authoritative answer: git.kernel.org canonical name = zeus-pub.kernel.org. Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org Address: 204.152.191.5 Name: zeus-pub.kernel.org Address: 204.152.191.37 so with a round-robin kind of DNS resolution, you'd get alternate machines. Maybe one of them isn't up-to-date due to mirroring problems? You can test by using the IP addresses explicitly, of course. In particular, if the directory doesn't exist at all, or if the directory doesn't have the "git-daemon-export-ok" flag, the git daemon on the other end will just close the connection and refuse to talk to you (I thought that was preferable to give any indication of why it fails: from a security standpoint, you do _not_ want to be able to test if a random directory exists by looking at the return value of git-daemon). Linus ```