I forgot to reply to the mailing list and now something went wrong with
the messages in mutt =P
Recap:ing: On Thursday, May 23, 2013 07:01:43 am you wrote:
> I'm running a rather special configuration, basically i > have a gerrit server pushing
...
> I have found "git receive-pack"s that has been running > for days/weeks without terminating.... >
...
> Anyone that has any clues about what could be going > wrong? --
Have you narrowed down whether this is a git client problem,
or a server problem (gerrit in your case). Is this a
repeatable issue. Try the same operation against a clone of
the repo using just git. Check on the server side for .noz
files in you repo (a jgit thing),
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This happens both using gerrit and using git directly...
My thought is more that git doesn't handle dodgy connections over
openvpn (udp) that goes over dodgy international vpn links.
I conclusion has always been that it ends up in a unpredictable state,
like a blocking read or so that just doesn't timeout... If it was a pipe
and not a socket then it'd always return... eventhough even a socket
should timeout i have seen processes left like this for weeks.
There was no .noz files on the master or the slave server.