From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luke Diamand Subject: git repo being corrupted? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:04:17 +0100 Message-ID: <47F9F1A1.30009@diamand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 07 13:03:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jip8J-0003Ss-EO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751749AbYDGLCa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:02:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751782AbYDGLCa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:02:30 -0400 Received: from manchester.eukhost.com ([92.48.75.3]:37419 "EHLO manchester.eukhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751699AbYDGLCa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:02:30 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3488 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:02:29 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=diamand.org; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-AntiAbuse:X-AntiAbuse:X-AntiAbuse:X-AntiAbuse:X-AntiAbuse; b=hD5SyTobVWErV7QsCfvHKSVfbn5KFJ9d3d3Rg0uw3iNzQLMU6EeKs/T0qa7ucAD3URiqai001K+1NfCcaYMee4DWfx92tARDBq1KMIMvY0Y8+ohuzdYthKc0jDGwa0XZ; Received: from cpc2-cmbg6-0-0-cust826.cmbg.cable.ntl.com ([81.107.35.59]:39926 helo=ethel.local.diamand.org) by manchester.eukhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JioD5-0004To-Rl for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:04:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by ethel.local.diamand.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JioD3-0001H4-Ug for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:04:17 +0100 User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071018) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - manchester.eukhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - diamand.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've recently started to notice the following being reported: % git-status error: bad index file sha1 signature fatal: index file corrupt (a) Is there anything I can do to fix this (apart from git-clone from the repo and start over) ? git-fsck reports the same problem. (b) What is causing it? Is it just my hard disk failing, or is it a bug? A memory test seems to be OK. Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 File system is XFS git version 1.5.4.4