From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago•edu>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: "fatal: index-pack failed" on git-clone
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:42:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viqi386th.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C92DE6F3-4F35-469F-AC28-4DDD1D8105C2@uchicago.edu> (Fritz Anderson's message of "Wed\, 8 Jul 2009 10\:58\:48 -0500")
Fritz Anderson <fritza@uchicago•edu> writes:
> I get the error "fatal: index-pack failed" when I attempt to clone a
> remote bare repository. The repository works well on other machines,
> including the repository's own.
>
> The repository lives on a version of Mac OS X I'm not allowed to talk
> about (I repeat: It works well for working copies on other machines,
> and on its own). The client is RHEL5. Git is version 1.6.3 on both
> machines, and was built from the tarball.
Looking at the output of the trace, I do not think that you have to worry
about people asking for a copy of your repository in order to diagnose
this issue, as I suspect that even a much smaller toy repository will fail
for you in the same way.
> Here's the debug transcript:
> ===========
> $ sudo GIT_TRACE=1 git clone myusername@remote•example.com:/Users/
> myusername/scientia/scientia.git
I have heard that pseudo resets the PATH so you are invoking "git" from
one of those standard system PATH, perhaps /usr/bin.
> trace: built-in: git 'clone' 'myusername@remote•example.com:/Users/
> myusername/scientia/scientia.git'
> Initialized empty Git repository in /srv/scientia/.git/
> trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'myusername@remote•example.com' 'git-upload-
> pack '\''/Users/myusername/scientia/scientia.git'\'''
> Password:
> trace: run_command: 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '--
> keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com'
> trace: exec: 'git' 'index-pack' '--stdin' '-v' '--fix-thin' '--
> keep=fetch-pack 17580 on local.example.com'
> trace: exec failed: No such file or directory
> trace: exec 'index-pack' failed: No such file or directory
This is saying that "git" on the local side (the one you are running
"clone" on) couldn't find its "index-pack" subcommand. Why?
I think this is an issue with your RHEL5 box, not the MacOS box. A quick
check that might be useful is to type:
$ git index-pack
$ sudo git index-pack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 15:58 "fatal: index-pack failed" on git-clone Fritz Anderson
2009-07-08 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-07-08 17:10 ` Fritz Anderson
2009-07-08 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-08 18:22 ` Fritz Anderson
2009-07-08 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-08 19:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-07-08 20:05 ` Fritz Anderson
2009-07-08 20:23 ` Fritz Anderson
2009-07-08 20:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-07-08 21:12 ` Jeff King
2009-07-08 21:27 ` Fritz Anderson
2009-07-09 18:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-07-08 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-09 6:37 ` Jeff King
2009-07-09 8:42 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-07-09 23:29 ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-07-13 4:52 ` Jeff King
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2009-07-09 8:06 Johannes Sixt
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