From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Winterfeld Subject: bug: "fatal: cannot pread pack file", version 1.7.5.4 Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 12:03:13 -0700 Message-ID: <5638dec6e156f83385a3baa01cf9ac4d@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 02 21:03:33 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlluH-0004mu-Ax for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:03:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751309Ab2GBTDU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:03:20 -0400 Received: from piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de ([141.24.4.8]:49009 "EHLO piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929Ab2GBTDU (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:03:20 -0400 Received: from venus.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (venus.rz.tu-ilmenau.de [141.24.4.158]) by piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id q62J3FWP023250 for ; Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:03:15 +0200 X-Sender: 8T2hPuvgw8oU5VPyKXM23RZftIJy0ib5DwoGU+lI1ygksq3g3RlgBw==@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I have used git for some time and regularly pushed changes to another server (as some kind of backup), but today I got this error during `git push`: Counting objects: 1293, done. Compressing objects: 100% (1027/1027), done. Writing objects: 100% (1229/1229), 70.83 MiB | 364 KiB/s, done. Total 1229 (delta 343), reused 0 (delta 0) fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory error: unpack failed: index-pack abnormal exit To user@host:~/path/ ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error)) error: failed to push some refs to 'user@host:~/path/' I found similar bug reports suggesting to upgrade too version 1.7.x, but I am already using git version 1.7.5.4. Can somebody explain to me what this error is about? What can I do to resolve it / is there a workaround? (There is enough disk space on the other server.) Lars