The "pack file truncated" theory sounds most likely. Is there any way I could tell git to regenerate the newest N packfiles?
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Evan Martin<e...@chromium.org> wrote: > https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/7/23/252538 > old and maybe obsolete, but has some exposition from Linus > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Evan Martin<e...@chromium.org> wrote: >> Aside from basic stuff like running out of disk space, I have no idea >> what would cause this problem. (It's weird that pread would fail with >> "no such file" when its API is to take an open file descriptor.) >> >> One workaround might be to try setting this defined, mentioned in the >> Makefile: >> # Define NO_PREAD if you have a problem with pread() system call (e.g. >> # cygwin.dll before v1.5.22). >> >> >> Not exactly sure it's relevant, but from a script that wraps git where >> this error came up, the author of the script asks "are you on OS X?" >> http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/msg/d6b4fd3d8a1677a2 >> "Unfortunately, either Python or Mac OS X is busted. With multiple cores >> present, we seem to get the result from waitpid() before all of the changes >> made by the child process are actually visible in the filesystem, so when we >> start the next child, the next child might be missing modifications it >> expected to see. " >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Nico Weber<tha...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> >>> Trying to pull: >>> >>> thakis-macbookpro:~/src/chrome-git/src thakis$ git pull >>> remote: Counting objects: 1859, done. >>> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1267/1267), done. >>> remote: Total 1393 (delta 1087), reused 195 (delta 107) >>> Receiving objects: 100% (1393/1393), 2.57 MiB | 781 KiB/s, done. >>> fatal: cannot pread pack file: No such file or directory >>> fatal: index-pack failed >>> >>> Ideas? The interwebs suggest deleting some file from my .git folder >>> that's not in there. >>> >>> Nico >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
