mysterious error message

mysterious error message

[Tom Sgouros]

Hello all:

I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':

  tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
  updating 'refs/heads/master'
    from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
    to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
   Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
  Generating pack...
  Done counting 10 objects.
  Deltifying 10 objects...
  error: pack-objects died with strange error
  unpack eof before pack header was fully read
  ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
  error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
  tomfool@toms-box:hpl$

I haven't been able to interpret this message, and haven't found it in
the documentation, and google has let me down, too.  Can anyone tell me
what is causing it?

I'm a new git user, and this is a new git archive.  I've successfully
done a couple of git push operations before, though.  The connection I'm
making is via ssh.  I'm working on a Mac OS X (10.4.9) machine over here
and the server to which I'm trying to push is a Linux box
(2.6.22-gentoo-r6).

Many thanks,

 -tom

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Re: mysterious error message

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> 
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
>   updating 'refs/heads/master'
>     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
>     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
>    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
>   Generating pack...
>   Done counting 10 objects.
>   Deltifying 10 objects...
>   error: pack-objects died with strange error
>   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
>   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
>   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> 
> I haven't been able to interpret this message, and haven't found it in
> the documentation, and google has let me down, too.  Can anyone tell me
> what is causing it?
I think it's a problem on the pushing side.  Maybe out of disk space (in
$GIT_DIR or $TMP_DIR)?  Does git repack work?

HTH
Uwe

Re: mysterious error message

[tom sgouros]

> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> > 
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
> >   updating 'refs/heads/master'
> >     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
> >     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
> >    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
> >   Generating pack...
> >   Done counting 10 objects.
> >   Deltifying 10 objects...
> >   error: pack-objects died with strange error
> >   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
> >   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> >   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> > 
> > I haven't been able to interpret this message, and haven't found it in
> > the documentation, and google has let me down, too.  Can anyone tell me
> > what is causing it?
> I think it's a problem on the pushing side.  Maybe out of disk space (in
> $GIT_DIR or $TMP_DIR)?  Does git repack work?
> 

I did have a disk space issue on the pushing side, but have cleared it
up.  Is there something that needs to be reset, do you think?

Yes, git repack seems to work fine.  "Counting 215 objects, Deltifying
215 objects."  But I still get the same error message afterwards.

Thanks,

 -tom

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Re: mysterious error message

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:

> I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> 
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
>   updating 'refs/heads/master'
>     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
>     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
>    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
>   Generating pack...
>   Done counting 10 objects.
>   Deltifying 10 objects...
>   error: pack-objects died with strange error
>   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
>   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
>   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
>   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$

I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: mysterious error message

[Shawn O. Pearce]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> 
> > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> > 
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
> >   updating 'refs/heads/master'
> >     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
> >     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
> >    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
> >   Generating pack...
> >   Done counting 10 objects.
> >   Deltifying 10 objects...
> >   error: pack-objects died with strange error
> >   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
> >   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> >   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> 
> I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
> server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?

Almost.

I think its that there are submodules in the local side and they are
being pushed to the remote peer, but the git binary on the client
that is being used to execute git-push doesn't know about submodules.

"error: pack-objects died with strange error":

This was pack-objects aborting when it saw a subtree entry and it
couldn't trace down that path in order to include it into the pack.

"unpack eof before pack header was fully read":

This is the server side aborting because its gotten the command
set from the git-push client, but pack-objects never even got to
create the pack header, since it couldn't generate the full list
of objects it needed to include.

Tom, try upgrading to a Git implementation on the client.  It seems
to me that this repository must have been moved here by means outside
of Git (NFS mount?), or the client got downgraded (wrong $PATH?)

-- 
Shawn.

Re: mysterious error message

[tom sgouros]

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> 
> > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> > 
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
> >   updating 'refs/heads/master'
> >     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
> >     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
> >    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
> >   Generating pack...
> >   Done counting 10 objects.
> >   Deltifying 10 objects...
> >   error: pack-objects died with strange error
> >   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
> >   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> >   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
> >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> 
> I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
> server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?

I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version
1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server.  I installed
git via the fink package manager.  Could there be some other
incompatibility? 

Thanks,

 -tom

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Re: mysterious error message

[Shawn O. Pearce]

tom sgouros <tomfool@as220.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> > > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> > > 
> > >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
> > >   updating 'refs/heads/master'
> > >     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
> > >     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
> > >    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
> > >   Generating pack...
> > >   Done counting 10 objects.
> > >   Deltifying 10 objects...
> > >   error: pack-objects died with strange error
> > >   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
> > >   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> > >   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
> > >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> > 
> > I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
> > server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?
> 
> I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version
> 1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server.  I installed
> git via the fink package manager.  Could there be some other
> incompatibility? 

This change came after 1.5.3.6 and I think its what you are
tripping over:

  commit 481f0ee60eef2c34b891e5d04b7e6e5a955eedf4
  Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
  Date:   Sun Nov 11 23:35:23 2007 +0000

    Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules

rev-list aborting because it cannot mark a submodule commit
as uninteresting should cause pack-objects to abort too since
the list of objects wasn't completely produced.

That fix is in 1.5.3.7 or later.

-- 
Shawn.

Re: mysterious error message

[tom sgouros]

I have upgraded and the problem has disappeared.  Many thanks for the
advice.

 -tom

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

> tom sgouros <tomfool@as220.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> > > > I receive the following error message when I try to do a 'git push':
> > > > 
> > > >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$ git push
> > > >   updating 'refs/heads/master'
> > > >     from ad4ae7925d3dd23798e7c5b733d2d8f930f7410f
> > > >     to   5b5f5fae014a4f3535fa10b0f6e28b4bf3225dc3
> > > >    Also local refs/remotes/origin/master
> > > >   Generating pack...
> > > >   Done counting 10 objects.
> > > >   Deltifying 10 objects...
> > > >   error: pack-objects died with strange error
> > > >   unpack eof before pack header was fully read
> > > >   ng refs/heads/master n/a (unpacker error)
> > > >   error: failed to push to 'ssh://tomfool@as220.org/home/tomfool/hpl.git'
> > > >   tomfool@toms-box:hpl$
> > > 
> > > I got this message when I tried to push a project with submodules to a 
> > > server which had submodule-ignorant git installed.  Maybe it's that?
> > 
> > I'm not sure which versions are submodule-ignorant, but it's version
> > 1.5.3.6 on the pusher and version 1.5.4.5 on the server.  I installed
> > git via the fink package manager.  Could there be some other
> > incompatibility? 
> 
> This change came after 1.5.3.6 and I think its what you are
> tripping over:
> 
>   commit 481f0ee60eef2c34b891e5d04b7e6e5a955eedf4
>   Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>   Date:   Sun Nov 11 23:35:23 2007 +0000
> 
>     Fix rev-list when showing objects involving submodules
> 
> rev-list aborting because it cannot mark a submodule commit
> as uninteresting should cause pack-objects to abort too since
> the list of objects wasn't completely produced.
> 
> That fix is in 1.5.3.7 or later.
> 
> -- 
> Shawn.
> 



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