From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3450 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2009 06:51:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 3429 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Oct 2009 06:51:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx.meyering.net (HELO mx.meyering.net) (82.230.74.64) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:51:35 +0000 Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id BBF8956E63; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:51:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jim Meyering To: gdb@sourceware.org Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb.git hiccup In-Reply-To: <20091003233527.GA9182@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:35:27 -0400") References: <87ws3clkx8.fsf@meyering.net> <87r5tklij2.fsf@meyering.net> <87k4zclc87.fsf@meyering.net> <20091003233527.GA9182@caradoc.them.org> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <877hvbk5xn.fsf@meyering.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> FYI, so far, here's all I've done: >> >> head=a4a5c910c73f0bf2b7d063912274461838139423 >> git update-ref HEAD $head >> git update-ref master $head >> >> That should be enough for now. > > So, this is supposed to be fixed now? For gdb, yes, I think we're ok. > I've been getting this all day: > > dan@henry1:/scratch/dan git clone git://sourceware.org/git/archer.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /scratch/dan/archer/.git/ > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > > which I assumed was related... I assumed that, too. But when I tried to diagnose it, I discovered that there are unreadable temporary pack files owned by from back in February that prevent a local clone. sourceware$ cd /git/archer.git/objects; ls -l tmp* -rw------- 1 rmoseley archer 368640 Feb 9 2009 tmp_pack_hMUtoO -rw------- 1 rmoseley archer 876544 Feb 9 2009 tmp_pack_jmBcho -rw------- 1 rmoseley archer 1007616 Feb 9 2009 tmp_pack_zbwx0m I have neither root access nor archer group membership, so cannot remove them, and sent a request to overseers yesterday. No reply yet.