inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Luis Gutierrez]

Hi All,

At my company we have been using git for the past months, and except for 
a few people, everyone is happy with it. Last week, we discovered that 
the mac version of git was misbehaving (v1.5.6.4), but upgrading the 
client to the latest one (v1.6.0.4) fixed the issue. Fearing consistency 
issue between version, I decided to update the version of the central 
repository (ie, the place were people can go and synchronize their code) 
on a RHEL4 box from 1.5.6.4 to 1.6.0.4.
went to my git directory, pulled, checkout v1.6.0.4, and compiled with 
'make --prefix=/usr/loca/ all' and installed with the same comamnd. 
xinted dameon was restarted and then all hell broke loose.

All push/pull/clone operations were failing with the dreaded 'fatal: The 
remote end hung up unexpectedly'. After a few tests, this is what I found:

- I can clone/pull/push if I do it through ssh (ie, git clone 
ssh://server/project)
- I can clone/pull/push if I start git daemon on the command line through
git daemon --syslog --verbose --export-all 
--base-path=/vol0/git/projects --verbose --reuseaddr

But the way I had setup git, through xinetd is broken.

This is my current xinetd config:
service git
{
    disable      = yes
    socket_type  = stream
    wait         = no
    user         = git
    type         = UNLISTED
    protocol     = tcp
    log_on_failure    += USERID
    port         = 9418
    server       = /usr/local/bin/git
    server_args  = daemon --inetd --syslog --verbose --export-all 
--base-path=/vol0/git/projects --allow-override=uploadpack
}

And I'm getting the following errors:
 > git clone git://romanticism/tutorial tutorial.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tutorial.git/.git/
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character

before adding the --allow-override=uploadpack I was getting this:
 > git clone git://romanticism/tutorial tutorial.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tutorial.git/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Since the error appeared after the upgrade, it seems likely it is either 
a but, or something change regarding inte/xinetd, but I can't find any 
documentation about changes here.

Any help will be appreciated.

Luis Gutierrez

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Johannes Sixt]

Luis Gutierrez schrieb:
> At my company we have been using git for the past months, and except for
> a few people, everyone is happy with it. Last week, we discovered that
> the mac version of git was misbehaving (v1.5.6.4), but upgrading the
> client to the latest one (v1.6.0.4) fixed the issue. Fearing consistency
> issue between version, I decided to update the version of the central
> repository (ie, the place were people can go and synchronize their code)
> on a RHEL4 box from 1.5.6.4 to 1.6.0.4.
> went to my git directory, pulled, checkout v1.6.0.4, and compiled with
> 'make --prefix=/usr/loca/ all' and installed with the same comamnd.

It's not necessarily the cause of your problems, but didn't make install
warn you:

        !! You have installed git-* commands to new gitexecdir.
        !! Old version git-* commands still remain in bindir.
        !! Mixing two versions of Git will lead to problems.
        !! Please remove old version commands in bindir now.

Did you do as you were told?

-- Hannes

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Arafangion]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:29 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
<snip>
> All push/pull/clone operations were failing with the dreaded 'fatal: The 
> remote end hung up unexpectedly'. After a few tests, this is what I found:
> 
> - I can clone/pull/push if I do it through ssh (ie, git clone 
> ssh://server/project)
> - I can clone/pull/push if I start git daemon on the command line through
> git daemon --syslog --verbose --export-all 
> --base-path=/vol0/git/projects --verbose --reuseaddr
> 
> But the way I had setup git, through xinetd is broken.

I'm just guessing, as I'm too new to the git world to respond with more
expertise, but I will suggest that perhaps your problem is that your
$PATH is different with the xinitd configuration as contrasted with your
ssh configuration, as the locations of the git binaries could be
different.

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Brian Foster]

On Tuesday 25 November 2008 10:29:14 Luis Gutierrez wrote:
>[ ... ]
> This is my current xinetd config:
> service git
> {
>     disable      = yes
>     socket_type  = stream
>     wait         = no
>     user         = git
>     type         = UNLISTED
>     protocol     = tcp
>     log_on_failure    += USERID
>     port         = 9418
>     server       = /usr/local/bin/git
>     server_args  = daemon --inetd --syslog --verbose --export-all --base-path=/vol0/git/projects --allow-override=uploadpack
> }

   In the past I also had a problem when git was installed
  in /usr/local/bin and git-daemon was launched from xinetd.
  I don't recall the details now, but believe all the obvious
  suspects (conflicting git installation, /usr/local/bin not
  in PATH, mis-installed/mis-configured git, et al.) seemed Ok.
  In any case, I debugged the problem by adding:

     env  +=  GIT_TRACE=/tmp/LOG-git-daemon

  to the xinetd config.  I suggest trying that and seeing
  what the logfile contains.

cheers!
	-blf-

p.s.  In my case, *using the information in the logfile*,
     I eventually worked-around it by adding
     ‘--exec-path=/usr/local/bin’ to the ‘server_args’.
     I never did work out exactly what was going wrong (this
     was with a self-built git v1.5.5 on CentOS release 5).

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Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Luis Gutierrez]

Arafangion wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:12 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
>   
>> Arafangion wrote: 
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:29 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> All push/pull/clone operations were failing with the dreaded 'fatal: The 
>>>> remote end hung up unexpectedly'. After a few tests, this is what I found:
>>>>
>>>> - I can clone/pull/push if I do it through ssh (ie, git clone 
>>>> ssh://server/project)
>>>> - I can clone/pull/push if I start git daemon on the command line through
>>>> git daemon --syslog --verbose --export-all 
>>>> --base-path=/vol0/git/projects --verbose --reuseaddr
>>>>
>>>> But the way I had setup git, through xinetd is broken.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I'm just guessing, as I'm too new to the git world to respond with more
>>> expertise, but I will suggest that perhaps your problem is that your
>>> $PATH is different with the xinitd configuration as contrasted with your
>>> ssh configuration, as the locations of the git binaries could be
>>> different.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I've tried that, they are the same:
>>
>> # which git
>> /usr/local/bin/git
>>     
>
> What about the other git-* commands?
>
>   
This is what I have now:
ls /usr/local/bin/git*
git  git-cvsserver  gitk  git-receive-pack  git-shell  
git-upload-archive  git-upload-pack
it seems.. a lot less than it used to be, but then again, perhaps this 
is why the git-* commands were deprecated?


-- 
* Luis Gutierrez | * XMOS Semiconductor <http://www.xmos.com>
Venturers House, King Street, Bristol BS1 4PB, UK

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Arafangion]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:12 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
> Arafangion wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:29 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
> > <snip>
> >   
> > > All push/pull/clone operations were failing with the dreaded 'fatal: The 
> > > remote end hung up unexpectedly'. After a few tests, this is what I found:
> > > 
> > > - I can clone/pull/push if I do it through ssh (ie, git clone 
> > > ssh://server/project)
> > > - I can clone/pull/push if I start git daemon on the command line through
> > > git daemon --syslog --verbose --export-all 
> > > --base-path=/vol0/git/projects --verbose --reuseaddr
> > > 
> > > But the way I had setup git, through xinetd is broken.
> > >     
> > 
> > I'm just guessing, as I'm too new to the git world to respond with more
> > expertise, but I will suggest that perhaps your problem is that your
> > $PATH is different with the xinitd configuration as contrasted with your
> > ssh configuration, as the locations of the git binaries could be
> > different.
> > 
> >   
> I've tried that, they are the same:
> 
> # which git
> /usr/local/bin/git

What about the other git-* commands?

> 

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Johannes Sixt]

Luis Gutierrez schrieb:
> This is my current xinetd config:
> service git
> {
>    disable      = yes

Remove this line.

-- Hannes

Re: inted problems when upgrading to 1.6.0.4

[Arafangion]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 10:54 +0000, Luis Gutierrez wrote:
<snip>
> This is what I have now:
> ls /usr/local/bin/git*
> git  git-cvsserver  gitk  git-receive-pack  git-shell  
> git-upload-archive  git-upload-pack
> it seems.. a lot less than it used to be, but then again, perhaps this 
> is why the git-* commands were deprecated?

As Johannes Sixt mentioned, they have been moved from the bindir to the
new gitexecdir.