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

[Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>]

On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:43:39 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> 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...
>
>OK, is ~/devel/project fully packed?  If it isn't can you repack
>it (or a clone of it) so that it is?

I did a git gc on this before starting, so I assume it is fully packed.

I tried copying my backup 1.4 repo to my local drive and then cloning
it with 1.5 onto my nfs-mounted drive.  This failed like this:

% cp -rp project-/ ~/project-1.4
% git clone --bare ~/project-1.4
[...]
Resolving 1286 deltas.
fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=37269, packfile size=0
fatal: index-pack died with error code 128

Just to see what 1.4 will now do, I tried with 1.4, and it is now
failing also:

[Reset PATH]
% git --version
git version 1.4.4.1
% git clone --bare ~/project-1.4
[...]
Resolving 1286 deltas.
remote: Total 3165, written 3165 (delta 1286), reused 1840 (delta 488)
fatal: index-pack died of signal 7

>Then take the packfile and try to feed it right into index-pack:
>
>	mkdir /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
>	cd /austin/users/rael/repos/git/project-test
>	git --bare init
>	git --bare index-pack --stdin --fix-thin \
>	  <~/devel/project/.git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack
>
>Now while that is running it should be creating pack_XXXXXX as a
>temporary file (where XXXXXX is replaced with the temp string).
>Its this file that we are seeing magically truncate to 0 in the
>middle of running.

Did that.  Still fails:

% git --bare index-pack --stdin --fix-thin < ~/devel/project/.git/objects/pack/pack-fe532a54e5d549f1cfc70a4ab2c5f4eaac8897a5.pack
fatal: cannot pread pack file: Success from=39215, packfile size=0

I do see this:

% ls -l objects
total 88088
drwxr-xr-x  2 rael  software     4096 Feb 28 13:05 info/
drwxr-xr-x  2 rael  software     4096 Feb 28 13:05 pack/
-rw-------  1 rael  software 90099505 Feb 28 13:06 pack_eZwOnG


Bill