On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 02:08:20PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > git clone fails on my Debian armel system: > > sascha.si...@flatty:~$ git clone > git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-jhbuild/mainline.git sugar-jhbuild > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sascha.silbe/sugar-jhbuild/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 4772, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2079/2079), done. > error: inflate: data stream error (invalid distance too far back) > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 616818: inflate returned -3 > fatal: index-pack failed > sascha.si...@flatty:~$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/jhbuild > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/sascha.silbe/jhbuild/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 19804, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6374/6374), done. > fatal: pack has bad object at offset 487227: inflate returned -5 > fatal: index-pack failed > sascha.si...@flatty:~$
Hi Sascha, the bug seems to be in zlib, not git. git uses the inflate() function from zlib, which, in your case, returns the errors -3 (Z_DATA_ERROR) and -5 (Z_BUF_ERROR). See /usr/include/zlib.h. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org