From: Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@llaisdy•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A sudden lack of permission
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:16:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA0C36B.5000708@llaisdy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100927160759.GB10256@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Dear Peff
Thanks for your help.
Yes, I can ssh onto the server, cd to /var/www/git/my_repos.git and add,
edit files, etc.
There is another person on the box doing sysadmin. I'll ask.
Is there any reason the repos could have just broken somehow? A corrupt
push?
Best wishes
Ivan
On 27/09/2010 17:07, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:52:52PM +0100, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
>
>> I have been using git quite happily for a good while, pushing to my
>> remote. Suddenly this afternoon the remote told me I didn't have
>> permission:
>>
>> $ git push
>> ivan@remote•org's password:
>> Counting objects: 19, done.
>> Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.04 KiB, done.
>> Total 11 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
>> error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository
>> database ./objects
>>
>> fatal: failed to write object
>> error: unpack failed: unpack-objects abnormal exit
>> To ivan@remote•org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git
>> ! [remote rejected] master -> master (n/a (unpacker error))
>> error: failed to push some refs to
>> 'ivan@remote•org:/var/www/git/my_repos.git'
>>
>> I had sufficient permission even this morning!
>>
>> Please could someone tell me what might have happened and, more
>> importantly, how I can start pushing to the remote again? The
>> project in my_repos is large, so I'd rather not start a new repos
>> from scratch.
> Presumably the permissions on the server changed for some reason. Can
> you ssh to the remote host and confirm that user "ivan" has permissions
> to write to the repo's objects dir? If not, then you will have to figure
> out what happened, but it is likely outside the scope of git (e.g., an
> overly inclusive chmod by some cron job or admin on the box).
>
> If you do have permissions, then we will have to dig deeper into why git
> would fail, but the permissions would appear fine.
>
> -Peff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-27 14:52 A sudden lack of permission Ivan Uemlianin
2010-09-27 16:07 ` Jeff King
2010-09-27 16:16 ` Ivan Uemlianin [this message]
2010-09-27 16:22 ` Jeff King
2010-09-27 16:30 ` Ivan Uemlianin
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