Re: Error "fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success"

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=39395, packfile size=2
> fatal: index-pack died with error code 128

Gahhh. I had the arguments to lseek reversed:

diff --git a/index-pack.c b/index-pack.c
index cf81a99..5629c23 100644
--- a/index-pack.c
+++ b/index-pack.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static void *get_data_from_pack(struct object_entry *obj)
 	do {
 		ssize_t n = pread(pack_fd, data + rdy, len - rdy, from + rdy);
 		if (n <= 0)
-			die("cannot pread pack file: %s", strerror(errno));
+			die("cannot pread pack file: %s from=%lu, packfile size=%lu", strerror(errno), from, lseek(pack_fd, 0, SEEK_END));
 		rdy += n;
 	} while (rdy < len);
 	data = xmalloc(obj->size);


-- 
Shawn.