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

[Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>]

On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:06:41 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> % strace -f -o tracefile git clone --bare ~/devel/project
>> [...]
>> fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=39395, packfile size=0
>> [...]
>> % grep pread tracefile
>> 28635 pread(3,  <unfinished ...>
>> 28635 <... pread resumed> "", 207, 39395) = 0
>> 28635 write(2, "cannot pread pack file: Success "..., 59) = 59
>
>Well, that answers that.  The packfile is 0 bytes long.  Why?
>We downloaded the data and are trying to resolve deltas... but
>when we go back into the packfile we thought we had, we find it is
>nothing but an empty file.  NFS strikes again!
>
>Have you been able to clone onto this drive before?  Maybe with a
>different version of Git (1.4.x series, before this pread change
>in index-pack)?  Clearly this operation should be working, but
>its not, and I'm certainly at a loss for why the file would just
>magically truncate itself.

Yes: 1.4.x worked fine.  This was actually my attempt to re-do the 1.4
clone I had laying around, as I wanted my backup done with 1.5.  I
still have the 1.4 cloned repo, just moved it out of the way...


Bill