Re: Problem with clone hanging

[Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I am trying to clone a repository as follows:
> 
>   git clone git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband
> 
> This makes a tiny bit of progress, and then hangs, without ever printing
> any output.
> 
> Upon doing an strace to figure out what might be going on, I see this:
> 
>      <...much activity...>
>         28261 write(3, "0032want 8ba130df4b67fa40878ccf80d54615132d24bc68\n", 50) = 50
>         28261 write(3, "0032want 7df8ea909888d4856d3aff1c41192739d715a393\n", 50) = 50
>         28261 write(3, "0000", 4)               = 4
>         28261 write(3, "0009done\n", 9)         = 9
>         28261 read(3, "0008", 4)                = 4
>         28261 read(3, "NAK\n", 4)               = 4
>         28261 gettimeofday({1154968213, 166810}, NULL) = 0
>         28261 open("/home/bos/git/ofed_1_1/.git/objects/pack/tmp-ZbzARk", O_RDWR|O_CREAT
>         |O_EXCL, 0600) = 4
>         28261 gettimeofday({1154968213, 167511}, NULL) = 0
>         28261 read(3, ...
>      <...HANG>
> 
> >From which I conclude that the server is telling the client to go away,
> which the client is for some reason ignoring.
> 
> Not being a habitual git user, I don't know where to go from here.  I'm
> using the latest git, cloned and built as of today.  Help!

Looks like the same problem that kernel.org used to have. The other
side probably runs git-1.4.0, they should upgrade to 1.4.1. In the mean
time, you could clone using http and later on switch to git transport.


Erik

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